See pound in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "pound",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pounds",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Against the dollar, the pound fell by half a cent to $ 1.73."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pound is a unit of currency used in Britain."
],
"id": "simple-pound-en-noun-HLym797X",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Since he stopped smoking, he has gained 20 pounds."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pound is a unit of weight equal to 16 ounces or 0.454 kilograms."
],
"id": "simple-pound-en-noun-ap1vNxUb",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paʊnd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pound.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "pound"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "pound",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "pounds",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pounded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pounded",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "pounding",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Grace pounded on the door. \"Come out of there!\""
},
{
"text": "He pounded his hand against the desk and jumped up."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you pound something, you hit it hard."
],
"id": "simple-pound-en-verb-~rY188nZ",
"raw_tags": [
"transitive & intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Verbs",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I ran and ran until my heart was pounding in my chest."
},
{
"text": "After the party, my head was pounding and I had to lie down."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If your head or heart is pounding, you can feel the blood moving through it."
],
"id": "simple-pound-en-verb-UlADDwUS",
"raw_tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paʊnd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pound.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "pound"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "pound",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pounds",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Against the dollar, the pound fell by half a cent to $ 1.73."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pound is a unit of currency used in Britain."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Since he stopped smoking, he has gained 20 pounds."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pound is a unit of weight equal to 16 ounces or 0.454 kilograms."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paʊnd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pound.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "pound"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "pound",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "pounds",
"tags": [
"third-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pounded",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pounded",
"tags": [
"past",
"participle"
]
},
{
"form": "pounding",
"tags": [
"present",
"participle"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Grace pounded on the door. \"Come out of there!\""
},
{
"text": "He pounded his hand against the desk and jumped up."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you pound something, you hit it hard."
],
"raw_tags": [
"transitive & intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Intransitive verbs",
"Verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I ran and ran until my heart was pounding in my chest."
},
{
"text": "After the party, my head was pounding and I had to lie down."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If your head or heart is pounding, you can feel the blood moving through it."
],
"raw_tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/paʊnd/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pound.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "pound"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pound meaning in English (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-05 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (8c1bb29 and fb63907). 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.