{
    "term": "seven",
    "partOfSpeech": "number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "7",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are seven cookies left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "seven of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten people were invited but only seven turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you lend me seven dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a seven-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page seven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Seven and two is nine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two sevens are fourteen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a seven?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in fives or sevens *(= groups of five or seven)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was seven *(= seven years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at seven *(= at seven o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a confused state; not well organized",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I haven't had time to clear up, so I'm all at sixes and sevens."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the desire for new sexual experience that is thought to be felt after seven years of marriage",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsevn/",
                "audio": "se/seven/seven__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsevn/",
                "audio": "se/seven/seven__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English seofon, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeven and German sieben, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin septem and Greek hepta."
}