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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "most",
"partOfSpeech": "determiner, pronoun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the largest in number or amount",
"labels": "British English",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who do you think will get (the) most votes?"
},
{
"text": "She had the most money of all of them."
},
{
"text": "I spent most time on the first question."
},
{
"text": "Who ate the most?"
},
{
"text": "The director has **the most to lose**."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "more than half of somebody/something; almost all of somebody/something",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I like most vegetables."
},
{
"text": "Most classical music sends me to sleep."
},
{
"text": "As most of you know, I've decided to resign."
},
{
"text": "Most of the people I had invited turned up."
},
{
"text": "There are thousands of verbs in English and most (of them) are regular."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "not more than",
"examples": [
{
"text": "As a news item it merits a short paragraph at most."
},
{
"text": "There were 50 people there, at the very most."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "mostly; usually",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The contributors are, for the most part, professional scientists."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to gain as much advantage, pleasure, etc. as you can from somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's my first trip abroad so I'm going to make the most of it."
},
{
"text": "She doesn't know how to make the most of herself *(= make herself appear in the best possible way)*."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məʊst/",
"audio": "mo/most/most__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məʊst/",
"audio": "mo/most/most__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English māst, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meest and German meist."
}