{
    "term": "most",
    "partOfSpeech": "determiner, pronoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the largest in number or amount",
            "labels": "British English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Who do you think will get (the) most votes?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had the most money of all of them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I spent most time on the first question."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who ate the most?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The director has **the most to lose**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "more than half of somebody/something; almost all of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I like most vegetables."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most classical music sends me to sleep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As most of you know, I've decided to resign."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the people I had invited turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are thousands of verbs in English and most (of them) are regular."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not more than",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "As a news item it merits a short paragraph at most."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were 50 people there, at the very most."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "mostly; usually",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The contributors are, for the most part, professional scientists."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to gain as much advantage, pleasure, etc. as you can from somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's my first trip abroad so I'm going to make the most of it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She doesn't know how to make the most of herself *(= make herself appear in the best possible way)*."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məʊst/",
                "audio": "mo/most/most__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məʊst/",
                "audio": "mo/most/most__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English māst, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meest and German meist."
}