{
    "term": "the",
    "partOfSpeech": "definite article",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used to refer to somebody/something that has already been mentioned or is easily understood",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There were three questions. The first two were relatively easy but the third one was hard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was an accident here yesterday. A car hit a tree and the driver was killed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The heat was getting to be too much for me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The nights are getting longer."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to refer to somebody/something that is the only, normal or obvious one of their kind",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Mona Lisa"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Nile"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Queen"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's the matter?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The phone rang."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I patted her on the back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How's the *(= your)* baby?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used when explaining which person or thing you mean",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the house at the end of the street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The people I met there were very friendly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the best day of my life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're the third person to ask me that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Friday the thirteenth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Alexander the Great"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "used to refer to a thing in general rather than a particular example",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He taught himself to play the violin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dolphin is an intelligent animal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They placed the African elephant on their endangered list."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I heard it on the radio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm usually out during the day."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used with adjectives to refer to a thing or a group of people described by the adjective",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "With him, you should always expect the unexpected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the unemployed"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the French"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used before the plural of somebody’s last name to refer to a whole family or a married couple",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't forget to invite the Jordans."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "used with a unit of measurement to mean ‘every’",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My car does forty miles to the gallon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You get paid by the hour."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "enough of something for a particular purpose",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I wanted it but I didn't have the money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "used with a unit of time to mean ‘the present’",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Why not have the dish of the day?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's flavour of the month with him."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "used, stressing the, to show that the person or thing referred to is famous or important",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sheryl Crow? Not the Sheryl Crow?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At that time London was the place to be."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to show that two things change to the same degree",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The less said about the whole thing, the happier I'll be."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðə//ði//ðiː/",
                "audio": "th/the/the__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðiː/",
                "audio": "th/the/the__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðə//ði//ðiː/",
                "audio": "th/the/the__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ðiː/",
                "audio": "th/the/the__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English se, sēo, thæt, ultimately superseded by forms from Northumbrian and North Mercian thē, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch de, dat, and German der, die, das."
}