{
    "term": "twelve",
    "partOfSpeech": "number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "12",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are only twelve of these rare animals left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "twelve of Sweden’s top financial experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twenty people were invited but only twelve turned up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you lend me twelve dollars?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a twelve-month contract"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at page twelve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twelve and three is fifteen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two twelves are twenty-four."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing—is this meant to be a twelve?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bulbs are planted in nines and twelves *(= groups of nine or twelve)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We moved to America when I was twelve *(= twelve years old)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall we meet at twelve *(= at twelve o'clock)*, then?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/twelv/",
                "audio": "tw/twelve/twelve__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/twelv/",
                "audio": "tw/twelve/twelve__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English twelf(e), from the base of two + a second element (probably expressing the sense ‘left over’); of Germanic origin and related to Dutch twaalf and German zwölf. Compare with eleven."
}