{
    "term": "arena",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a place with a flat open area in the middle and seats around it where people can watch sports and entertainment",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a concert at Wembley Arena"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an indoor **sports arena**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a hockey/basketball arena"
                },
                {
                    "text": "plans to construct a new downtown arena"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He left the arena to loud applause."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Hurricanes have a new home arena."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The rider has to halt the horse in the arena."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: other sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["Olympic", "sports", "training"],
                "verb + arena": ["build", "leave"],
                "arena + noun": ["floor"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the arena", "into an/​the arena"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an area of activity that interests the public, especially one where there is a lot of opposition between different groups or countries",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **political/international arena**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I want to work outside the arena of competition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some documents have now emerged into the public arena."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has been very successful in the commercial arena."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The conference should provide an arena for marketing our new products."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This observation also applies in the environmental policy arena."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Trades unions are active both in individual workplaces and in the wider arena of the state."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the challenges of bringing a business into the online arena"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Space became an arena for global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["global", "international", "national"],
                "verb + arena": ["create", "provide", "emerge into"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in an/​the arena",
                    "within an/​the arena",
                    "outside an/​the arena"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈriːnə/",
                "audio": "ar/arena/arena__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈriːnə/",
                "audio": "ar/arena/arena__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin harena, arena ‘sand, sand-strewn place of combat’."
}