word-vault/dist/data/cards/te/ten.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "ten",
    "partOfSpeech": "number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "10",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are only ten of these rare animals left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "ten of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twelve people were invited but only ten turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you have change for ten dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ten-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page ten."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten and two is twelve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two tens are twenty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a ten?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in sevens or tens *(= groups of seven or ten)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was ten *(= ten years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at ten *(= at ten o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that somebody has guessed something correctly or done something very well",
            "labels": "(British English, often ironic)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Not brilliant, Robyn, but I'll give you ten out of ten for effort."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very probably",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Ten to one he'll be late."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very common and therefore not valuable",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Teachers of history are ten a penny."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ten/",
                "audio": "te/ten/ten__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ten/",
                "audio": "te/ten/ten__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English tēn, tīen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tien and German zehn, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit daśa, Greek deka, and Latin decem."
}