{
    "term": "dark",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "with no or very little light, especially because it is night",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a dark room/street/forest/night"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What time does it **get dark** in summer?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Then the theatre **went dark**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was dark outside and I couldn't see much."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sky was still dark."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Use lights to illuminate dark corners."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It gets dark at about six o'clock."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As it grew dark, they gathered round the fire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's only three o'clock and it's nearly dark already."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They stepped into the dark room and shone the torch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He stumbled along through the dark forest."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not light; closer in shade to black than to white",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "dark blue/green/red/brown"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Darker colours are more practical and don't show stains."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "having a colour that is close to black",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He wore a **dark suit** and a plain tie."
                },
                {
                    "text": "dark-coloured wood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **dark clouds** in the sky meant that a storm was coming."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "brown or black in colour",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sue has long dark hair."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was handsome with dark eyes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Even if you have dark skin, you still need protection from the sun."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Appearance"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "having dark hair, eyes, etc.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a dark handsome stranger"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "mysterious; hidden and not known about",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are no **dark secrets** in our family."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "evil or frightening",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a **darker side** to his nature."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the dark forces of the imagination"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My mind was full of dark thoughts."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "unpleasant and without any hope that something good will happen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the darkest days of Fascism"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film is a dark vision of the future."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The theatre stayed open even in the darkest days of the war."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "produced with the back part of the tongue close to the back of the mouth. In many accents of (= ways of pronouncing) English, dark /l/ is used after a vowel, as in ball.",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who does not tell other people much about their life, and who surprises other people by having interesting qualities",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person taking part in a race, etc. who surprises everyone by winning",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to keep something secret and not tell people about it",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He’s got two children? Well he’s kept that dark, hasn’t he!"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɑːk/",
                "audio": "da/dark/dark__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɑːrk/",
                "audio": "da/dark/dark__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English deorc, of Germanic origin, probably distantly related to German tarnen ‘conceal’."
}