{
    "term": "contagious",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a contagious disease spreads by close contact between people",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Scarlet fever is highly contagious."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His enthusiasm was contagious *(= spread quickly to other people)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a contagious laugh"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new disease proved contagious."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Health problems"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if a person is contagious, they have a disease that can be spread by close contact with other people",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈteɪdʒəs/",
                "audio": "xc/contagious/xcontagious__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈteɪdʒəs/",
                "audio": "xc/contagious/xcontagious__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from late Latin contagiosus, from contagio, from con- ‘together with’ + the base of tangere ‘to touch’."
}