{
    "term": "sauce",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add taste to it",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "tomato/cranberry/chilli sauce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken in a white sauce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ice cream with a hot fudge sauce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "pasta sauce *(= sauce that is served with pasta)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A honey-mustard dipping sauce helped add flavour to the crab cakes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "coconut tart served with hot chocolate sauce"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Pour the sauce over the pasta."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had lamb with mint sauce."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["thick", "thin", "buttery"],
                "verb + sauce": ["make", "prepare", "reduce"],
                "sauce + noun": ["boat", "bottle"],
                "preposition": ["in sauce", "with sauce"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "talk or behaviour that is annoying or shows no respect",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "what one person is allowed to do, another person must be allowed to do in a similar situation",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Permission and obligation"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sɔːs/",
                "audio": "so/sauce/source__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sɔːs/",
                "audio": "sa/sauce/sauce__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’. Compare with salad."
}