{
    "term": "again",
    "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "one more time; on another occasion",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This must never **happen again**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Try again**—it takes practice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can we **start again**, please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you say it again, please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When will I see you again?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This author again proves to be a superb storyteller."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've told you **again and again** *(= many times)* not to do that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll have to write it **all over again** *(= again from the beginning)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She tried **over and over again** *(= many times)* to get it right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has **yet again** *(= as has happened many times before)* shown that he cannot be trusted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Once again** *(= as had happened several times before)*, the train was late."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "showing that somebody/something is in the same place or state that they were in originally",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We're very happy to be here together again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was glad to be home again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You'll soon feel well again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spends two hours a day getting to work and **back again**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "added to an amount that is already there",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The cost is about **half as much again** as it was two years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd like **the same again** *(= the same amount or the same thing)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used to show that a comment or fact is connected with what you have just said",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "And again, we must think of the cost."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to introduce a fact or an opinion that contrasts with what you have just said",
            "sensetop": "then/there again",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We might buy it but then again we might not."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used when you ask somebody to tell you something or repeat something that you think they have told you already",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What was the name again?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "from time to time; occasionally",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Every now and again she checked to see if he was still asleep."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to ask somebody to serve you the same drink as before",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Same again, please!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "often; on many or all occasions",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You will get a perfect result time after time if you follow these instructions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Time and again, the girls have shown how strong and determined they can be."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈɡen//əˈɡeɪn/",
                "audio": "ag/again/again__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈɡen//əˈɡeɪn/",
                "audio": "ag/again/again__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English ongēan, ongægn, etc., of Germanic origin; related to German entgegen ‘opposite’."
}