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{
"term": "happy",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "feeling or showing pleasure; pleased",
"sensetop": "happy to do somethinghappy for somebodyhappy (that)…",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a happy family"
},
{
"text": "a happy smile/face"
},
{
"text": "You don't look very happy today."
},
{
"text": "He always **seemed happy** enough."
},
{
"text": "I've never **felt **so **happy**."
},
{
"text": "Money won't **make you happy**."
},
{
"text": "We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.",
"contextForm": "happy to do something"
},
{
"text": "I'm very happy for you.",
"contextForm": "happy for somebody"
},
{
"text": "I’m happy (that) you could come.",
"contextForm": "happy (that)…"
},
{
"text": "I looked around at all the happy faces."
},
{
"text": "For the first time in her life, she felt truly happy."
},
{
"text": "I can die happy knowing that I have achieved this."
},
{
"text": "I'm just happy to be back home."
},
{
"text": "Outwardly the couple appeared happy."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "for", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "giving or causing pleasure",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She had a very **happy life**."
},
{
"text": "a happy marriage/childhood/occasion"
},
{
"text": "I have many **happy memories** from that time."
},
{
"text": "The story has a **happy ending**."
},
{
"text": "Those were the **happiest days of my life**."
},
{
"text": "It had been a gloriously happy time."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "if you wish somebody a Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc. you mean that you hope they have a pleasant celebration",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "satisfied that something is good or right; not anxious",
"sensetop": "happy with somebody/somethinghappy about somebody/somethinghappy about somebody/something doing something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't know what you've done, but the boss isn't happy."
},
{
"text": "I said I'd go just to **keep him happy**."
},
{
"text": "Are you happy with that arrangement?",
"contextForm": "happy with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "I'm not happy with his work this term."
},
{
"text": "She was **happy enough** with her performance."
},
{
"text": "If there's anything you're not happy about, come and ask.",
"contextForm": "happy about somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "I'm **not too happy** about her living alone.",
"contextForm": "happy about somebody/something doing something"
},
{
"text": "Dad seemed perfectly happy with my explanation."
},
{
"text": "I was quite happy with the way things went."
},
{
"text": "He went home from time to time, to keep his mother happy."
},
{
"text": "Her boss was not entirely happy about the situation."
},
{
"text": "I'm not too happy about her attitude."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "willing or pleased to do something",
"sensetop": "happy to do something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm **perfectly happy** to leave it till tomorrow."
},
{
"text": "People seemed **quite happy** to help."
},
{
"text": "He will be **more than happy** to come with us."
},
{
"text": "We'd be **only too happy** to accept your invitation."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "lucky; successful",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "By **a happy coincidence**, we arrived at exactly the same time."
},
{
"text": "He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money."
},
{
"text": "By a happy chance, I got a hotel room just five minutes from the university."
},
{
"text": "I picked the restaurant pretty much at random, but it proved a happy choice all round."
}
],
"synonyms": "fortunate",
"topics": ["Success"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "suitable and appropriate for a particular situation",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That wasn't the happiest choice of words."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "(not) pleased about a situation",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She wasn't a happy bunny at all."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the birth of a baby",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a course of action that is not extreme",
"labels": "(approving)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to wish somebody a happy and pleasant birthday",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhæpi/",
"audio": "ha/happy/happy__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhæpi/",
"audio": "ha/happy/happy__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘lucky’): from the noun hap ‘good fortune’ + -y."
}