{
    "term": "despite",
    "partOfSpeech": "preposition",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to show that something happened or is true although something else might have happened to prevent it",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her voice was shaking despite all her efforts to control it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Despite applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was good at physics **despite the fact that** she found it boring."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "in spite of"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to show that somebody did not intend to do the thing mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had to laugh despite himself."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "in spite of"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspaɪt/",
                "audio": "de/despite/despite__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspaɪt/",
                "audio": "de/despite/despite__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally used as a noun meaning ‘contempt, scorn’ in the phrase in despite of): from Old French despit, from Latin despectus ‘looking down on’, past participle (used as a noun) of despicere, from de- ‘down’ + specere ‘look at’."
}