See lighter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "light",
"tags": [
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "lighter",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "lightest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "light",
"2": "lighter",
"3": "lightest"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": "ligh‧ter",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My room is a lighter shade of blue than yours."
},
{
"text": "Have you lost weight? You look ten pounds lighter!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The comparative form of light; more light."
],
"id": "simple-lighter-en-adj-eqJ8Qxvp"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "lighter"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "lighter",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lighters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": "ligh‧ter",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He used a lighter to start a fire at the campsite."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A lighter is a device that is used to start fires."
],
"id": "simple-lighter-en-noun-TvwblOyo",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "lighter"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "light",
"tags": [
"positive"
]
},
{
"form": "lighter",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "lightest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "light",
"2": "lighter",
"3": "lightest"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": "ligh‧ter",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Comparative forms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "My room is a lighter shade of blue than yours."
},
{
"text": "Have you lost weight? You look ten pounds lighter!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The comparative form of light; more light."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "lighter"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "lighter",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lighters",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": "ligh‧ter",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He used a lighter to start a fire at the campsite."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A lighter is a device that is used to start fires."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈlaɪtə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-uk-lighter.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"word": "lighter"
}
Download raw JSONL data for lighter meaning in English (1.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-12-20 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.