{
    "term": "deaf",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "unable to hear anything or unable to hear very well",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **become/go deaf**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was born deaf."
                },
                {
                    "text": "partially deaf"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of these children are profoundly deaf."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She remained deaf until she died."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke loudly because her mother was a little deaf."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Standing next to the machine all day left her deaf in one ear."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Disability"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "be born", "become"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "profoundly", "stone"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["deaf in one ear"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "people who cannot hear",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "television subtitles for the deaf"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "not willing to listen or pay attention to something",
            "sensetop": "deaf to something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was deaf to my requests for help."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee remained deaf to our suggestions."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "be born", "become"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "profoundly", "stone"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["deaf in one ear"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very deaf",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be ignored or not noticed by other people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her advice fell on deaf ears."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to ignore or refuse to listen to somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He turned a deaf ear to the rumours."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/def/",
                "audio": "de/deaf/deaf__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/def/",
                "audio": "de/deaf/deaf__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English dēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doof and German taub, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tuphlos ‘blind’."
}