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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "the",
"partOfSpeech": "definite article",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "used to refer to somebody/something that has already been mentioned or is easily understood",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "There were three questions. The first two were relatively easy but the third one was hard."
},
{
"text": "There was an accident here yesterday. A car hit a tree and the driver was killed."
},
{
"text": "The heat was getting to be too much for me."
},
{
"text": "The nights are getting longer."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used to refer to somebody/something that is the only, normal or obvious one of their kind",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the Mona Lisa"
},
{
"text": "the Nile"
},
{
"text": "the Queen"
},
{
"text": "What's the matter?"
},
{
"text": "The phone rang."
},
{
"text": "I patted her on the back."
},
{
"text": "How's the *(= your)* baby?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "used when explaining which person or thing you mean",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the house at the end of the street"
},
{
"text": "The people I met there were very friendly."
},
{
"text": "It was the best day of my life."
},
{
"text": "You're the third person to ask me that."
},
{
"text": "Friday the thirteenth"
},
{
"text": "Alexander the Great"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "used to refer to a thing in general rather than a particular example",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He taught himself to play the violin."
},
{
"text": "The dolphin is an intelligent animal."
},
{
"text": "They placed the African elephant on their endangered list."
},
{
"text": "I heard it on the radio."
},
{
"text": "I'm usually out during the day."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "used with adjectives to refer to a thing or a group of people described by the adjective",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "With him, you should always expect the unexpected."
},
{
"text": "the unemployed"
},
{
"text": "the French"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "used before the plural of somebody’s last name to refer to a whole family or a married couple",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Don't forget to invite the Jordans."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "used with a unit of measurement to mean ‘every’",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "My car does forty miles to the gallon."
},
{
"text": "You get paid by the hour."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 8,
"definition": "enough of something for a particular purpose",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I wanted it but I didn't have the money."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 9,
"definition": "used with a unit of time to mean ‘the present’",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Why not have the dish of the day?"
},
{
"text": "She's flavour of the month with him."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 10,
"definition": "used, stressing the, to show that the person or thing referred to is famous or important",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sheryl Crow? Not the Sheryl Crow?"
},
{
"text": "At that time London was the place to be."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to show that two things change to the same degree",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became."
},
{
"text": "The less said about the whole thing, the happier I'll be."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ðə//ði//ðiː/",
"audio": "th/the/the__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ðiː/",
"audio": "th/the/the__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ðə//ði//ðiː/",
"audio": "th/the/the__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ðiː/",
"audio": "th/the/the__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English se, sēo, thæt, ultimately superseded by forms from Northumbrian and North Mercian thē, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch de, dat, and German der, die, das."
}