{
    "term": "beard",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "image": "data/images/bo/body_hair.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "hair that grows on the chin and sides of somebody's face; similar hair that grows on some animals",
            "labels": "(informal)(formal)(British English)(British English)(disapproving)(both informal, often disapproving)(informal, disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He has decided to grow a beard and a moustache."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a week’s growth of beard"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a goat’s beard"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a false beard"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My beard's grown a lot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His beard is streaked with grey."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two men with beards approached him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jim stroked his beard reflectively."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sported a neat goatee beard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had two days' beard growth across his jowls and chin."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Appearance"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bushy", "flowing", "full"],
                "verb + beard": ["grow", "have", "sport"],
                "beard + verb": ["grow", "be streaked with something"],
                "beard + noun": ["growth", "stubble"],
                "preposition": ["with a/​the beard"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a three-day, etc. growth of beard",
                    "a three-day-old, etc. beard"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bɪəd/",
                "audio": "be/beard/beard__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bɪrd/",
                "audio": "be/beard/beard__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch baard and German Bart."
}