{
  "ersatz":{
    "antonyms":[
      "genuine",
      "natural",
      "real"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation":[
        "ersatz turf",
        "ersatz intellectuals"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an apartment complex designed as an ersatz Mediterranean villa",
      "like everything else the restaurant served, the whipped cream on the dessert was ersatz",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There are no arches, golden or otherwise, in the ersatz McDonald\u2019s that opened Sunday in Moscow. \u2014 Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
      "Akin to antlers on end tables, the aesthetics of national parks are being used in an ersatz way, tailored to the rich. \u2014 Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
      "This amounts to a kind of malpractice in the editing room, transforming the actors\u2019 brave and devoted exertions into a seeming cheat, an ersatz experience that might as well have been created with C.G.I. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
      "The city is celebrated as gaudy, flashy, ersatz , fake, a monument to excess. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "Always tentative about her abilities, Radziwill fell completely under Capote\u2019s ersatz Svengali spell. \u2014 Mark Peikert, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
      "But Batiste\u2019s sense of himself is trapped in ethnic expression that\u2019s become ersatz . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "But according to photos included in the lawsuit, customers are paying for puny, ersatz versions of what\u2019s shown in ads. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "The ersatz third place is a consequence of a culture obsessed with productivity and status, whose subjects might have decent incomes but little recreational time. \u2014 Allie Conti, The Atlantic , 4 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1871, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German ersatz- , from Ersatz , noun, substitute":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259r-\u02ccsats",
      "er-\u02c8z\u00e4ts",
      "\u02c8er-\u02ccs\u00e4ts",
      "-\u02c8s\u00e4ts",
      "-\u02ccz\u00e4ts"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "artificial",
      "bogus",
      "dummy",
      "factitious",
      "fake",
      "false",
      "faux",
      "imitation",
      "imitative",
      "man-made",
      "mimic",
      "mock",
      "pretend",
      "sham",
      "simulated",
      "substitute",
      "synthetic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071230",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "erstwhile":{
    "antonyms":[
      "former",
      "late",
      "old",
      "once",
      "onetime",
      "other",
      "past",
      "quondam",
      "sometime",
      "whilom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": former , previous":[
        "erstwhile enemies"
      ],
      ": in the past : formerly":[
        "cultures, erstwhile unknown to each other",
        "\u2014 Robert Plank"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adverb",
      "there's now a store where erstwhile lay green and pleasant pastures",
      "Adjective",
      "my erstwhile friend ignored me when I ran into her at the mall",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "In South Africa\u2019s middle class suburban areas, including Randburg, where there\u2019s more visible policing, lockdown measures are being tightly enforced, leaving several erstwhile busy stalls and shopping areas empty. \u2014 Quartz Africa , 4 Apr. 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "On paper, new society entrant Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) makes a perfect choice for the erstwhile lothario. \u2014 David Oliver, USA TODAY , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "De Blasio was constantly at war with erstwhile allies, and particularly with the press. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
      "The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is one of the sponsors of Ukraine House, which sits across the promenade from the erstwhile Russia House. \u2014 Mark Landler And Matina Stevis-gridneff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
      "Atlanta also anticipates the mid-season return of erstwhile star closer Kirby Yates, who signed a two-year, $8.25 million pact with the club last November but is still recuperating from Tommy John elbow surgery. \u2014 Dan Schlossberg, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "The tickets were a Christmas gift from our son Kelly, the erstwhile Kid Down the Hall. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 9 May 2022",
      "In 2013, Robbie Fitzpatrick and Alex Freedman founded the erstwhile Freedman Fitzpatrick gallery in Los Angeles with the aim of introducing European artists to the U.S. market. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
      "This erstwhile cultural hub has been converted into luxury homes. \u2014 Lydia Armstrong, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Faster data service like 4G was restored in the region only in January 2021, nearly 18 months after being withdrawn following the erstwhile state\u2019s restructuring by the Indian government. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 5 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1569, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259rst-\u02cc(h)w\u012b(-\u0259)l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "formerly",
      "once",
      "onetime"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180855",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  }
}