{
    "term": "bee",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a black and yellow flying insect that can sting (= touch your skin and make you feel a sharp pain).Bees live in large groups and make honey (= a sweet sticky substance that is good to eat).",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Bees were buzzing in the clover."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a swarm of bees"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bee sting"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Butterflies, flies and bees pollinate flowers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was stung by an angry bee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lavender attracts bees."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bees swarmed around the hive."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Insects, worms, etc."],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bumble", "honey", "killer"],
                "… of bees": ["swarm"],
                "verb + bee": ["attract"],
                "bee + verb": ["buzz", "hum", "sting (somebody)"],
                "bee + noun": ["hive", "sting", "keeper"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a meeting in a group where people combine work, competition and pleasure",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a sewing bee"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["quilting", "spelling"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very busy",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an excellent person or thing",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She thinks she's the bee's knees *(= she has a very high opinion of herself)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the basic facts about sex, especially as told to children",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to think or talk about something all the time and to think that it is very important",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our teacher has a bee in his bonnet about punctuation."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/biː/",
                "audio": "be/bee/bee__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/biː/",
                "audio": "be/bee/bee__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English bēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German dialect Beie."
}