See buy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "buy",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "buys",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bought",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bought",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "buying",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "buy",
"2": "buys",
"3": "bought",
"4": "bought",
"5": "buying"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb2"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Could you buy some milk at the store?"
},
{
"text": "We sold the house and bought a small apartment near Lincoln Center."
},
{
"text": "I stood in line all night to buy tickets for the show."
},
{
"text": "My kids don't want to wear the clothes I buy for them."
},
{
"text": "I can't afford to buy a new house."
},
{
"text": "In 1960, Willard bought the business from his father."
},
{
"text": "He bought the guitar for $150 on the internet."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy something, you give money and the thing becomes yours."
],
"id": "simple-buy-en-verb-YvNDze2o",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive & intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "$10 doesn't even buy a case of beer."
},
{
"text": "$100 buys a nice dinner or a hotel for the night."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If money buys something, it is enough money to pay for it."
],
"id": "simple-buy-en-verb-pV6G2YTo",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She went to the washroom to buy time. She didn't want to answer before Kate arrived."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy (somebody) time, you stop something from happening soon so that you have time to prepare for it."
],
"id": "simple-buy-en-verb-jfX4rcw0",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Your mother won't buy the story about getting lost."
},
{
"text": "I can buy that your way works, but other ways might work too."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy an idea, you believe it."
],
"id": "simple-buy-en-verb-0sn3~ru5",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "bī"
},
{
"ipa": "/baɪ/"
},
{
"sampa": "/baI/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-to buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"bi",
"by",
"bye"
]
}
],
"word": "buy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "buy",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "buys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "This dress was a good buy. It was on sale."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A buy is something that someone has bought, usually for a cheap price."
],
"id": "simple-buy-en-noun-fgStDd81",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "bī"
},
{
"ipa": "/baɪ/"
},
{
"sampa": "/baI/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-to buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"bi",
"by",
"bye"
]
}
],
"word": "buy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "buy",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "buys",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bought",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bought",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "buying",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "buy",
"2": "buys",
"3": "bought",
"4": "bought",
"5": "buying"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb2"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Could you buy some milk at the store?"
},
{
"text": "We sold the house and bought a small apartment near Lincoln Center."
},
{
"text": "I stood in line all night to buy tickets for the show."
},
{
"text": "My kids don't want to wear the clothes I buy for them."
},
{
"text": "I can't afford to buy a new house."
},
{
"text": "In 1960, Willard bought the business from his father."
},
{
"text": "He bought the guitar for $150 on the internet."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy something, you give money and the thing becomes yours."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive & intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "$10 doesn't even buy a case of beer."
},
{
"text": "$100 buys a nice dinner or a hotel for the night."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If money buys something, it is enough money to pay for it."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She went to the washroom to buy time. She didn't want to answer before Kate arrived."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy (somebody) time, you stop something from happening soon so that you have time to prepare for it."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Your mother won't buy the story about getting lost."
},
{
"text": "I can buy that your way works, but other ways might work too."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you buy an idea, you believe it."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "bī"
},
{
"ipa": "/baɪ/"
},
{
"sampa": "/baI/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-to buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"bi",
"by",
"bye"
]
}
],
"word": "buy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "buy",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "buys",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "This dress was a good buy. It was on sale."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A buy is something that someone has bought, usually for a cheap price."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "bī"
},
{
"ipa": "/baɪ/"
},
{
"sampa": "/baI/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-to buy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophones": [
"bi",
"by",
"bye"
]
}
],
"word": "buy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for buy meaning in English (2.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.