word-vault/dist/data/cards/od/odd.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "odd",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "strange or unusual",
            "sensetop": "it is/seems odd that…it is odd to do something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They're very odd people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's something odd about that man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That painting looks very odd."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a teenage girl with **rather odd** hair"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a while she noticed something quite odd."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When we got inside something struck me as odd."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's an odd little movie."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It seems odd that nobody noticed anything wrong.",
                    "contextForm": "it is/seems odd that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's **most odd that** *(= very odd that)* she hasn't written."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **odd thing** was that he didn't recognize me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's odd to think I will never see her again.",
                    "contextForm": "it is odd to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't think it odd at the time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had the oddest feeling that he was avoiding her."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "phrases": ["how odd", "it is odd to think", "something odd"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "strange or unusual in the way mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an odd-looking house"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an odd-sounding name"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "that cannot be divided exactly by the number two",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "1, 3, 5 and 7 are odd numbers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each section may have an odd or even number of players."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "happening or appearing occasionally; not happening often",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He makes the odd mistake—nothing too serious."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "occasional"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "of no particular type or size; various",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "decorations made of odd scraps of paper"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "not with the pair or set that it belongs to; not matching",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You're wearing odd socks!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "available; that somebody can use",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Could I see you when you've got an **odd moment**?"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "spare"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "approximately or a little more than the number mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How old is she—seventy odd?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's worked there for twenty-odd years."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is different from others or does not fit easily into a group or set",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At school he was always the odd man out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dog, cat, horse, shoe—which is the odd one out?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who is slightly strange or crazy",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, British English)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɒd/",
                "audio": "od/odd/odd__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːd/",
                "audio": "od/odd/odd__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the numerical sense): from Old Norse odda-, found in combinations such as odda-mathr ‘third or odd man’, from oddi ‘angle’."
}