{
    "term": "adjacent",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "next to something",
            "sensetop": "adjacent to something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The planes landed on adjacent runways."
                },
                {
                    "text": "numbers that are adjacent in the sequence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our farm land was adjacent to the river.",
                    "contextForm": "adjacent to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The vineyards of Verzy lie adjacent to those of Verzenay."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a row of houses immediately adjacent to the factory."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "be situated", "lie"],
                "adverb": ["directly", "immediately"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdʒeɪsnt/",
                "audio": "ad/adjacent/adjacent__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdʒeɪsnt/",
                "audio": "ad/adjacent/adjacent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin adjacent- ‘lying near to’, from adjacere, from ad- ‘to’ + jacere ‘lie down’."
}