{
    "term": "coincide",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "coincide",
            "heSheIt": "coincides"
        },
        "pastSimple": "coincided",
        "pastParticiple": "coincided",
        "ingForm": "coinciding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to take place at the same time",
            "sensetop": "coincide with something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's a pity our trips to New York don't coincide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The strike was timed to coincide with the party conference.",
                    "contextForm": "coincide with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The singer's arrival was timed to coincide with the opening of the festival."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["exactly", "precisely", "roughly"],
                "verb + coincide": ["be planned to", "be timed to"],
                "preposition": ["with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be the same or very similar",
            "sensetop": "coincide with something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The interests of employers and employees do not always coincide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her story coincided exactly with her brother's.",
                    "contextForm": "coincide with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our views on this issue coincide closely with yours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our views on this issue coincide closely with those of the Countryside Council."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["closely", "exactly", "perfectly"],
                "preposition": ["with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to meet; to share the same space",
            "sensetop": "coincide with something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At this point the two paths coincide briefly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The present position of the house coincides with that of an earlier dwelling.",
                    "contextForm": "coincide with something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪd/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincide__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdz/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincides__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincided__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coinciding__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪd/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincide__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdz/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincides__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coincided__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkəʊɪnˈsaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/coincide/coinciding__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 18th cent. (in the sense ‘occupy the same space’): from medieval Latin coincidere, from co- ‘together with’ + incidere ‘fall upon or into’."
}