{
    "term": "substantial",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "large in amount, value or importance",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "substantial sums of money"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a substantial change"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Substantial numbers of people support the reforms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ate a substantial breakfast."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are substantial differences between the two groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their share of the software market is substantial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were able to see a substantial improvement."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "large and solid; strongly built",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a substantial house"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a street of substantial Victorian villas"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈstænʃl/",
                "audio": "su/substantial/substantial__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈstænʃl/",
                "audio": "su/substantial/substantial__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French substantiel or Christian Latin substantialis, from substantia ‘being, essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare."
}