{
    "term": "address",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "details of where somebody lives or works and where letters, etc. can be sent",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(British English usually)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What's your **name and address**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll give you my address and phone number."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is that your **home address**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please note my **change of address**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was no **return address** on the envelope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each entry must include a valid **mailing address**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **postal address**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police found him at an address *(= a house or flat)* in West London."
                },
                {
                    "text": "people with no fixed address *(= with no permanent home)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave a false address to the police."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid there's nobody called Williams at this address."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please inform us of any change of address."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please leave a contact address."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please write your full postal address."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["home", "private", "business"],
                "verb + address": ["give", "leave", "write"],
                "address + noun": ["book"],
                "preposition": ["at an/​the address"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change of address",
                    "name and address",
                    "no fixed address"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a series of words and symbols that tells you where you can find something using a computer or phone, for example on the internet",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What's your **email address**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project has a new web address."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["email", "Internet", "Web"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a formal speech that is made in front of an audience",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "tonight’s televised presidential address"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The union leader gave a short but impassioned public address."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an address by the Chancellor of the University"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a radio address to the nation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a public address system"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Secretary General delivered the keynote address at the conference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gave details of the policy in an address to party members."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["short", "commencement", "farewell"],
                "verb + address": ["deliver", "give"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the address", "address by", "address to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the correct title, etc. to use when you talk to somebody",
            "sensetop": "form/mode of address",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdres/",
                "audio": "ad/address/address__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdres//ˈædres/",
                "audio": "ad/address/address__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘set upright’ and ‘guide, direct’, hence ‘write directions for delivery on’ and ‘direct spoken words to’): from Old French, based on Latin ad- ‘towards’ + directus past participle of dirigere, from di- ‘distinctly’ or de- ‘down’ + regere ‘put straight’. The noun is of mid 16th-cent. origin in the sense ‘act of approaching or speaking to somebody’."
}