{
    "term": "happy",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "feeling or showing pleasure; pleased",
            "sensetop": "happy to do somethinghappy for somebodyhappy (that)…",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a happy family"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a happy smile/face"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You don't look very happy today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He always **seemed happy** enough."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've never **felt **so **happy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Money won't **make you happy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.",
                    "contextForm": "happy to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm very happy for you.",
                    "contextForm": "happy for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m happy (that) you could come.",
                    "contextForm": "happy (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I looked around at all the happy faces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For the first time in her life, she felt truly happy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can die happy knowing that I have achieved this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm just happy to be back home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Outwardly the couple appeared happy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "for", "with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "giving or causing pleasure",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had a very **happy life**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a happy marriage/childhood/occasion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have many **happy memories** from that time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The story has a **happy ending**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those were the **happiest days of my life**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It had been a gloriously happy time."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "if you wish somebody a Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc. you mean that you hope they have a pleasant celebration",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "satisfied that something is good or right; not anxious",
            "sensetop": "happy with somebody/somethinghappy about somebody/somethinghappy about somebody/something doing something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I don't know what you've done, but the boss isn't happy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I said I'd go just to **keep him happy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you happy with that arrangement?",
                    "contextForm": "happy with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not happy with his work this term."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was **happy enough** with her performance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If there's anything you're not happy about, come and ask.",
                    "contextForm": "happy about somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm **not too happy** about her living alone.",
                    "contextForm": "happy about somebody/something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dad seemed perfectly happy with my explanation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was quite happy with the way things went."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He went home from time to time, to keep his mother happy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her boss was not entirely happy about the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not too happy about her attitude."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "willing or pleased to do something",
            "sensetop": "happy to do something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm **perfectly happy** to leave it till tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People seemed **quite happy** to help."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He will be **more than happy** to come with us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'd be **only too happy** to accept your invitation."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "lucky; successful",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "By **a happy coincidence**, we arrived at exactly the same time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is in the happy position of never having to worry about money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By a happy chance, I got a hotel room just five minutes from the university."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I picked the restaurant pretty much at random, but it proved a happy choice all round."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "fortunate",
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "suitable and appropriate for a particular situation",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That wasn't the happiest choice of words."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "(not) pleased about a situation",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She wasn't a happy bunny at all."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the birth of a baby",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a course of action that is not extreme",
            "labels": "(approving)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to wish somebody a happy and pleasant birthday",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhæpi/",
                "audio": "ha/happy/happy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhæpi/",
                "audio": "ha/happy/happy__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘lucky’): from the noun hap ‘good fortune’ + -y."
}