{
    "term": "earth",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the world; the planet that we live on",
            "sensetop": "on earth",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **planet Earth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The earth revolves around the sun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a satellite orbiting the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **earth's surface/crust**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the history of **life on earth**",
                    "contextForm": "on earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I must be the happiest person on earth!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "No one knows what happens to us after we leave this earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Bible says the meek will inherit the earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The earth revolves on its axis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a lost spirit, wandering the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "humans and other species that inhabit the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the last asteroid that hit the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the moon's orbit around the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She believed that demons walked the earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "when dinosaurs roamed the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The astronauts were able to send the information back to earth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Space"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["the entire", "the whole"],
                "verb + earth": ["circle", "orbit", "create"],
                "earth + verb": ["orbit something", "revolve", "rotate"],
                "earth + noun": ["history", "sciences", "scientist"],
                "preposition": [
                    "above the earth",
                    "around the earth",
                    "round the earth"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "inherit the earth",
                    "(the) planet earth",
                    "the centre/​center of the earth"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "land; the hard surface of the world that is not the sea or the sky; the ground",
            "sensetop": "above the earthunder/below/beneath the earth",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "fifty feet above the earth",
                    "contextForm": "above the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in mines deep under the earth",
                    "contextForm": "under/below/beneath the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Furniture fell over as the room was shaken by an earth tremor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wreckage of the plane was scattered across the parched earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bunker is located deep below the earth."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bare", "fertile", "barren"],
                "… of earth": ["clod", "clump", "lump"],
                "earth + verb": ["shake", "tremble"],
                "earth + noun": ["bank", "mound", "tremor"],
                "preposition": ["in the earth", "under the earth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the substance that plants grow in",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a clod/mound of earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I cleaned off the earth clinging to my boots."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I filled the pot with a handful of loose earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I scrambled to the top of the steep earth bank."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My boots were caked in big clods of wet earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plants must have their roots in the earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sun beat down on the baked earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dig the earth to a depth of two spade lengths."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His boots sank into the soft earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the air was the smell of freshly dug earth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bare", "fertile", "barren"],
                "… of earth": ["clod", "clump", "lump"],
                "earth + verb": ["shake", "tremble"],
                "earth + noun": ["bank", "mound", "tremor"],
                "preposition": ["in the earth", "under the earth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the hole under the ground where an animal, especially a fox, lives",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a wire that connects an electric circuit with the ground and makes it safe",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Engineering"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be, feel, look, taste, etc. very bad",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to charge, etc. a lot of money",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'd love that dress, but it costs the earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you want a house in London, you’ll have to pay the earth for it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to return, or to make somebody return, to a normal way of thinking or behaving after a time when you/they have been very excited, not very practical, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to disappear completely",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep looking—they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to hide, especially to escape from somebody",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do everything possible, even if it is difficult, in order to get or achieve something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'd go to the ends of the earth to see her again."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize the question you are asking when you are surprised or angry or cannot think of an obvious answer",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What on earth are you doing?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How on earth can she afford that?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do everything you possibly can in order to achieve something",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used after negative nouns or pronouns to emphasize what you are saying",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make promises that will be impossible to keep",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Politicians promise the earth before an election, but things are different afterwards."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to find somebody/something after looking hard for a long time",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a very good and honest person that you can always depend on",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to destroy or remove somebody/something completely",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɜːθ/",
                "audio": "ea/earth/earth__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɜːrθ/",
                "audio": "ea/earth/earth__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English eorthe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aarde and German Erde."
}