{
    "term": "abstract",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "based on general ideas and not on any particular real person, thing or situation",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**abstract knowledge/principles**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Abstract principles are no good in this particular situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All human beings are capable of thinking in abstract terms."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical reality",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We may talk of beautiful things but beauty itself is abstract."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mathematics is an extremely abstract discipline."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the ideas that their legal system is based on are incredibly abstract."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Freedom is more than a purely abstract notion."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not representing people or things in a realistic way, but expressing the artist’s ideas about them",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the work of American abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Art"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæbstrækt/",
                "audio": "ab/abstract/abstract__gb_5.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæbstrækt/",
                "audio": "ab/abstract/abstract__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’."
}