[
  {
    "word": "because",
    "phonetic": "/b\u026a\u02c8k\u0252z/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/b\u026a\u02c8k\u0252z/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/because-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=709480",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/bi\u02c8k\u0254z/",
        "audio": ""
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "For the reason (that).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "On account (of), for sake (of).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "My life is ruined because of you!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with \"why\", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase \"Because I said so\".",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "preposition",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "On account of, because of.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "conjunction",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I hid myself because I was afraid."
          },
          {
            "definition": "As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I don't think he is a nice person, because he yells at people for no reason."
          },
          {
            "definition": "So that, in order that.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "as",
          "for",
          "for sake",
          "for that",
          "forthy",
          "forwhy",
          "inasmuch as",
          "since",
          "sith",
          "therefore",
          "\u2235"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/because"
    ]
  }
]