word-vault/dist/data/cards/ja/jazz.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "jazz",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often improvise (= make up the music as they are playing), originally created by African American musicians at the beginning of the 20th century",
            "labels": "(British English)(especially North American English)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "traditional/modern jazz"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a jazz band/club"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**jazz musicians**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the rising stars of the New York jazz scene"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["live", "cool", "free"],
                "verb + jazz": ["play", "listen to"],
                "jazz + noun": ["music", "clarinettist", "guitarist"],
                "preposition": ["in jazz"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "and things like that",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How's it going? You know—love, life and all that jazz."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dʒæz/",
                "audio": "ja/jazz/jazz__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dʒæz/",
                "audio": "ja/jazz/jazz__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 20th cent.: of unknown origin."
}