[
  {
    "word": "interest",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8\u026ant\u0259\u0279\u026ast/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8\u026ant\u0259\u0279\u026ast/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8\u026ant\u0259\u0279st/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/interest-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=268453"
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any excess over and above an exact equivalent",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He has a lot of interest in vintage cars."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I have business interests in South Africa."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something or someone one is interested in.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Lexicography is one of my interests."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the iron interest;\u2003 the cotton interest"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "cost of money",
          "oker"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Action films don't really interest me."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To cause or permit to share.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "bore",
          "disinterest"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interest"
    ]
  }
]