{
    "term": "blanket",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/be/beds.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large cover, often made of wool, used especially on beds to keep people warm",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It’s cold tonight—can I have another blanket?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The baby was wrapped in a blanket."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She pulled the blanket up and went to sleep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They shivered under their thin blankets."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["heavy", "thick", "thin"],
                "verb + blanket": [
                    "cover somebody with",
                    "drape over somebody/​something",
                    "tuck around somebody"
                ],
                "preposition": ["beneath a/​the blanket", "under a/​the blanket"],
                "phrases": ["a wet blanket"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thick layer or mass of something",
            "sensetop": "blanket of something",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **blanket of fog/snow/cloud**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The trial was conducted under a blanket of secrecy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sun was breaking through the blanket of mist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The walls were covered in blankets of ivy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈblæŋkɪt/",
                "audio": "bl/blanket/blanket__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈblæŋkɪt/",
                "audio": "bl/blanket/blanket__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting undyed woollen cloth): via Old Northern French from Old French blanc ‘white’, ultimately of Germanic origin."
}