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{
"term": "than",
"partOfSpeech": "preposition, conjunction",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "used to introduce the second part of a comparison",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm older than her."
},
{
"text": "There was more milk in it than coffee."
},
{
"text": "He loves me more than you do."
},
{
"text": "It was much better than I'd expected."
},
{
"text": "You should know better than to behave like that."
},
{
"text": "I'd rather email than phone, if that's OK by you."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used for comparing amounts, numbers, distances, etc.",
"sensetop": "more/less/fewer, etc. than",
"cefr": "a1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It never takes more than an hour."
},
{
"text": "It's less than a mile to the beach."
},
{
"text": "There were fewer than twenty people there."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "used in expressions showing that one thing happens straight after another",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**No sooner** had I sat down **than** there was a loud knock on the door."
},
{
"text": "**Hardly** had we arrived **than** the problems started."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "except",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't know any French people other than you."
},
{
"text": "We're going away in June but **other than that** I'll be here all summer."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "different or in a different way from; not",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I have never known him to behave other than selfishly."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ðən//ðæn/",
"audio": "th/than/than__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ðən//ðæn/",
"audio": "th/than/than__us_3_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English than(ne), thon(ne), thænne, originally the same word as then."
}