{
    "term": "spoon",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/cu/cutlery.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a tool that has a handle with a shallow bowl at the end, used for mixing, serving and eating food",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a plastic/metal spoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a soup spoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wait until the chocolate melts completely, stirring with a spoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Press the top down gently with the back of a spoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thai food is eaten with a spoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I stirred my coffee with the sugar spoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children argued over who should lick the spoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 5 ml measuring spoon"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["slotted", "serving", "soup"],
                "verb + spoon": ["pick up", "put down", "hold"],
                "preposition": ["spoon of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the amount that a spoon can hold",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "two spoons of sugar"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["slotted", "serving", "soup"],
                "verb + spoon": ["pick up", "put down", "hold"],
                "preposition": ["spoon of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "having rich parents",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/spuːn/",
                "audio": "sp/spoon/spoon__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/spuːn/",
                "audio": "sp/spoon/spoon__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English spōn ‘chip of wood’, of Germanic origin; related to German Span ‘shaving’. The current noun sense is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th cent."
}