word-vault/dist/data/cards/pu/purple.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "purple",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having the colour of blue and red mixed together",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a purple flower/dress"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face was purple with rage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The effort was making her face turn purple."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It produces lovely dark purple berries around this time of year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["almost", "slightly"],
                "adjective": ["bright", "vivid", "dark"],
                "phrases": ["purple in the face", "purple with rage"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "writing or a piece of writing that is too grand in style",
            "sensetop": "purple prose/passage",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɜːpl/",
                "audio": "pu/purple/purple__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɜːrpl/",
                "audio": "pu/purple/purple__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor), alteration of purpre, from Latin purpura ‘purple’, from Greek porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, also cloth dyed with this."
}