{
    "term": "than",
    "partOfSpeech": "preposition, conjunction",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to introduce the second part of a comparison",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm older than her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was more milk in it than coffee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He loves me more than you do."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was much better than I'd expected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You should know better than to behave like that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd rather email than phone, if that's OK by you."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used for comparing amounts, numbers, distances, etc.",
            "sensetop": "more/less/fewer, etc. than",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It never takes more than an hour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's less than a mile to the beach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were fewer than twenty people there."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used in expressions showing that one thing happens straight after another",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**No sooner** had I sat down **than** there was a loud knock on the door."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Hardly** had we arrived **than** the problems started."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "except",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I don't know any French people other than you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're going away in June but **other than that** I'll be here all summer."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "different or in a different way from; not",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I have never known him to behave other than selfishly."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðən//ðæn/",
                "audio": "th/than/than__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðən//ðæn/",
                "audio": "th/than/than__us_3_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English than(ne), thon(ne), thænne, originally the same word as then."
}