[
  {
    "word": "empire",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8\u025bmpa\u026a.\u0259/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8\u025bmpa\u026a.\u0259/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8\u025bm\u02ccpa\u026a\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/empire-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1762926",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(furniture) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804\u20131814).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the Russian empire"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the McDonald's fast food empire"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(Absolute) control, dominion, sway.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Empire",
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empire"
    ]
  }
]