{
    "term": "being",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "existence",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Irish Free State **came into being** in 1922."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A new era was **brought into being** by the war."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + being": ["be brought into", "come into"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a living creature",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**human beings**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a strange being from another planet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "No **living being** deserves to be treated this way."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I work on the assumption that people are rational beings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dolphins are highly intelligent beings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They claim to have proof that alien beings have landed on Earth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Biology"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["human", "living", "intelligent"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "your mind and all of your feelings",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I hated him with my whole being."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbiːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "be/being/being__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbiːɪŋ/",
                "audio": "be/being/being__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}