{
    "term": "calamity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an event that causes great damage to people’s lives, property, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The country suffered a series of calamities during the 1980s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His financial help saved the magazine from total calamity."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "disaster"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæməti/",
                "audio": "ca/calamity/calamity__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈlæməti/",
                "audio": "ca/calamity/calamity__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘disaster,’ and‘ distress’): from Old French calamite, from Latin calamitas."
}