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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "where",
"partOfSpeech": "adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "in or to what place or situation",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Where do you live?"
},
{
"text": "I wonder where they will take us to."
},
{
"text": "Where *(= at what point)* did I go wrong in my calculations?"
},
{
"text": "Where *(= in what book, newspaper, etc.)* did you read that?"
},
{
"text": "Just where *(= to what situation or final argument)* is all this leading us?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used after words or phrases that refer to a place or situation to mean ‘at, in or to which’",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's one of the few countries where people drive on the left."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the place or situation in which",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We then moved to Paris, where we lived for six years."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/weə(r)/",
"audio": "wh/where/where__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/wer/",
"audio": "wh/where/where__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English hwǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch waar and German wo."
}