{"id": "soliloquy", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "soliloquy", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English: from late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus \u2018alone\u2019 + loqui \u2018speak\u2019"], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "plural", "text": "Plural", "type": "Number"}], "inflectedForm": "soliloquies"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/soliloquy_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "s\u0259\u02c8l\u026al\u0259kwi"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "theatre", "text": "Theatre"}], "examples": [{"text": "Edmund ends the scene as he had begun it, with a soliloquy"}, {"notes": [{"text": "mass noun", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "he did most of his thinking by soliloquy"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0966990.005", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "speech", "text": "Speech"}], "shortDefinitions": ["act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["a part of a play involving a soliloquy"], "examples": [{"text": "in the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0966990.008", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "speech", "text": "Speech"}], "shortDefinitions": ["part of play involving soliloquy"]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "monologue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "speech"}, {"language": "en", "text": "address"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lecture"}, {"language": "en", "text": "oration"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sermon"}, {"language": "en", "text": "homily"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stand-up"}, {"language": "en", "text": "aside"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "soliloquy", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0013779.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "soliloquy"}], "type": "headword", "word": "soliloquy"}], "word": "soliloquy"}