word-vault/dist/data/cards/st/stamp.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "stamp",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a small piece of paper with a design on it that you buy and stick on an envelope or a package before you post it",
            "labels": "formal",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a 67p stamp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could I have three first-class stamps, please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been collecting stamps since he was eight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a stamp album"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Post Office has issued a commemorative stamp to mark the event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't forget to put a stamp on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She stuck a first-class stamp on the letter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Post Office has launched some new Christmas stamps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The stamps were issued in 1863."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a book of ten first-class stamps"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["postage", "first-class", "second-class"],
                "… of stamps": ["book", "set", "sheet"],
                "verb + stamp": ["put", "put on", "stick"],
                "stamp + noun": ["album", "collecting", "collection"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a tool for printing the date or a design or mark onto a surface",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a date stamp"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["official", "date", "time"],
                "phrases": ["stamp of approval"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a design or words made by stamping something onto a surface",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The passports, with the visa stamps, were waiting at the embassy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project has the government's **stamp of approval**."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["official", "date", "time"],
                "phrases": ["stamp of approval"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a small piece of paper with a design on it, stuck on a document to show that a particular amount of money has been paid",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a TV licence stamp"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the mark or sign of a particular quality or person",
            "sensetop": "stamp (of something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All his work **bears the stamp** of authority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "President Reagan left an indelible stamp on the nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She left her stamp on the school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His work bears the unmistakable stamp of genius."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has a new chance to put his stamp on policy."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["personal", "unmistakable", "indelible"],
                "verb + stamp": ["bear", "carry", "leave on"],
                "preposition": ["stamp of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a kind or class, especially of people",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "men of a different stamp"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "an act or sound of stamping the foot",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The stamp of hoofs alerted Isabel."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stæmp/",
                "audio": "st/stamp/stamp__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/stæmp/",
                "audio": "st/stamp/stamp__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘crush to a powder’): of Germanic origin; related to German stampfen ‘stamp with the foot’; reinforced by Old French estamper ‘to stamp’. Compare with stomp."
}