{
    "term": "delicious",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having a very pleasant taste or smell",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Who cooked this? It's absolutely delicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **taste/smell/look delicious**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a delicious meal/recipe/treat"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This dish is delicious with cream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The food was delicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The meal was really delicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The recipe sounds delicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their hens provide them with delicious and nutritious eggs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lentils cooked with garlic make a delicious accompaniment to sausages or red meat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's that? It smells delicious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a delicious alternative to cheese"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "smell"],
                "adverb": ["incredibly", "most", "really"],
                "phrases": ["delicious and nutritious"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "extremely pleasant",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the delicious coolness of the breeze"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A delicious shiver of excitement ran through his body."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈlɪʃəs/",
                "audio": "de/delicious/delicious__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈlɪʃəs/",
                "audio": "de/delicious/delicious__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (also in the sense ‘characterized by sensuous indulgence’): via Old French from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae (plural) ‘delight, pleasure’."
}