{
    "term": "three",
    "partOfSpeech": "number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "3",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are only three cookies left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "three of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ten people were invited but only three turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you lend me three dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a three-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page three."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three and four is seven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three threes are nine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a three?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in threes or fives *(= groups of three or five)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was three *(= three years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at three *(= at three o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "two or three at a time; in small numbers",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "People arrived in twos and threes."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "reading, writing and arithmetic, thought to be the most important parts of a child’s education",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θriː/",
                "audio": "th/three/three__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θriː/",
                "audio": "th/three/three__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English thrīe (masculine), thrīo, thrēo (feminine), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch drie and German drei, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tres and Greek treis."
}