{
    "term": "six",
    "partOfSpeech": "numbernoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "6",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are six cookies left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "six of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten people were invited but only six turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you lend me six dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a six-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page six."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Six and four is ten."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three sixes are eighteen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a six?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in fours or sixes *(= groups of four or six)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was six *(= six years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at six *(= at six o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a hit that scores six runs (= points)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
        },
        {
            "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": "to be dead and buried in the ground",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to affect somebody very deeply",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The business over the lawsuit had really knocked her for six."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that there is not much real difference between two possible choices",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sɪks/",
                "audio": "si/six/six__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sɪks/",
                "audio": "si/six/six__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English siex, six, syx, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zes and German sechs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sex and Greek hex."
}