{
    "term": "so",
    "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to such a great degree",
            "sensetop": "so… (that)…so… as to do something",
            "labels": "(formal, especially British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't look so angry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no need to worry so."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why has it taken **so long**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That wasn't **so bad**, was it?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke so quietly (that) I could hardly hear her.",
                    "contextForm": "so… (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What is it that's **so important** it can't wait five minutes?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was so impressed that he jumped up and down with excitement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gets so caught up in her fame that she neglects her true friends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was so incredibly cheap it was unbelievable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not so stupid as to believe that.",
                    "contextForm": "so… as to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Would you be so kind as to** lock the door when you leave?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "very; extremely",
            "labels": "(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm so glad to see you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The girls looked so pretty in their summer dresses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was pleased that **so many** people turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have **so much** to do."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's **so good** to have you back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We've worked **so hard** to get to this point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They came **so close** to winning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're going to Harvard! That's **so great**!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their attitude is **so very** English."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The article was **just so much** *(= nothing but)* nonsense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am so pleased with this new book."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sat there **ever so** quietly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I do love it so."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not to the same degree",
            "sensetop": "not so… (as…)",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I haven't enjoyed myself so much for a long time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have never felt so humiliated in my entire life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It wasn't so good as last time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not so easy as you'd think."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was not so quick a learner as his brother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's **not so much** a hobby **as** a career *(= more like a career than a hobby)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Off she went **without so much as** *(= without even)* a ‘goodbye’."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used to show the size, amount or number of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The fish was about so big *(= said when using your hands to show the size)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are **only so many** *(= only a limited number of)* hours in a day."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to refer back to something that has already been mentioned",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Is he coming?’ ‘**I hope so**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Did they mind?’ ‘I **don't think so**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If she notices, she never **says so**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I might be away next week. **If so**, I won't be able to see you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are very busy—**so much so that** we won't be able to take time off this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Programs are expensive, and **even more so** if you have to keep altering them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hear that you're a writer—**is that so** *(= is that true)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "George is going to help me, or **so he says** *(= that is what he says but I am not sure if I believe him)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They asked me to call them and I **did so** *(= I called)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She leaked the story to the media and, **in so doing**, helped bring down the president."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He thinks I dislike him but that just isn't so."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "also",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Times have changed and **so have I**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I prefer the first version.’ ‘**So do we**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Temperatures are rising in Canada, and **so too** are the annual blueberry harvests."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used to agree that something is true, especially when you are surprised",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘You were there, too.’ ‘**So I was**—I'd forgotten.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘There's another one.’ ‘**So there is**.’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "used, often with a negative, before adjectives and noun phrases to emphasize something that you are saying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is **so not** the right person for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That is **so not** cool."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "used, especially by children, to say that what somebody says is not the case and the opposite is true",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘You're not telling the truth, are you?’ ‘I am, so!’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "used when you are showing somebody how to do something or telling them how something happened",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Stand with your arms out, so."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**So it was that** he finally returned home."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used at the end of a list to show that it continues in the same way",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We discussed everything—when to go, what to see and so on."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to give an important extra reason why something is true",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His achievement is remarkable; all the more so because he had no help at all."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used after a number, an amount, etc. to show that it is not exact",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There were twenty or so *(= about twenty)* people there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We stayed for an hour or so."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "with the intention of doing something",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We went early so as to get good seats."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to show that you accept something and will not try to change it or cannot change it",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If he doesn't want to be involved, then so be it."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to show that you have finished talking about something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "So much for the situation in Germany. Now we turn our attention to France."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to suggest that something has not been successful or useful",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "So much for that idea!"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in such a way that",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The programme has been so organized that none of the talks overlap."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səʊ/",
                "audio": "so/so/so__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səʊ/",
                "audio": "so/so/so__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "adverb Old English swā, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zo and German so."
}