word-vault/dist/data/cards/me/metre.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "metre",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a 50-metre swimming pool"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every few metres the cat stopped and turned to look at me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over 3 700 square metres of office space is available."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The huge sculpture is made of 500 cubic metres of ice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an athlete running at 10 metres per second"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used in the name of races",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She came second in the 200 metres."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the 4 × 100 metre(s) relay"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the arrangement of strong and weak stresses in lines of poetry that produces the rhythm; a particular example of this",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She knows a lot about verse metre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "poems in a variety of metres"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the hexameter, the epic metre of Homer"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmiːtə(r)/",
                "audio": "me/metre/metre__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmiːtər/",
                "audio": "me/metre/metre__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "senses 1 to 2 late 18th cent.: from French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.sense 3 Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre, from Latin metrum, from Greek metron ‘measure’."
}