[
  {
    "word": "football",
    "phonetic": "[f\u02b7\u028a\u0294t\u031ab\u0251\u026b]",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "[f\u02b7\u028a\u0294t\u031ab\u0251\u026b]",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/football-au.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75269561",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u028atb\u0251l/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u028atb\u0254\u02d0l/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u028atb\u0254l/",
        "audio": ""
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Each team scored three goals when they played football."
          },
          {
            "definition": "American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "They played football in the snow."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(New South Wales) rugby league.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Rugby union.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The ball used in any game called \"football\".",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The player kicked the football."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "That budget item became a political football."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.",
            "synonyms": [
              "atomic football",
              "black bag",
              "black box",
              "nuclear football"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "atomic football",
          "black bag",
          "black box",
          "nuclear football"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To play football.",
            "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/football"
    ]
  }
]