word-vault/dist/data/cards/mu/mummy.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "mummy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a child’s word for a mother",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I want my mummy!’ he wailed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It hurts, Mummy!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mummy and Daddy will be back soon."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a body of a human or an animal that has been mummified",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an Egyptian mummy"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌmi/",
                "audio": "mu/mummy/mummy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmʌmi/",
                "audio": "mu/mummy/mummy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "sense 1 late 18th cent.: perhaps an alteration of earlier mammy.sense 2 late Middle English (denoting a substance taken from embalmed bodies and used in medicines): from French momie, from medieval Latin mumia and Arabic mūmiyā ‘embalmed body’, perhaps from Persian mūm ‘wax’."
}