{
    "term": "humble",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "showing you do not think that you are as important as other people",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Be humble enough to learn from your mistakes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "my humble tribute to this great man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was very humble and apologetic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an amazing man who makes you feel quite humble"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She felt humble and grateful but couldn't put her feelings into words."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a loving, kind and humble woman."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "modest"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to suggest that you are not as important as other people, but in a way that is not sincere or not very serious",
            "labels": "(ironic or humorous)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**In my humble opinion**, you were in the wrong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**My humble apologies**. I did not understand."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "having a low rank or social position",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a man of **humble birth/origins**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a humble occupation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the daughter of a humble shopkeeper"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was the daughter of a humble carpenter and a washerwoman."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is intensely proud of his humble background."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had worked his way up from humble beginnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a man of fairly humble origins"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not large or special in any way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a humble farmhouse"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has worked its way up from humble beginnings to become the market leader."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of us have never considered the humble potato as a precious gift from nature."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "modest"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmbl/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humble__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmblə(r)/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humbler__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmblɪst/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humblest__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmbl/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humble__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmblər/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humbler__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhʌmblɪst/",
                "audio": "hu/humble/humblest__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from Latin humilis ‘low, lowly’, from humus ‘ground’."
}