{
    "term": "decade",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a period of ten years, especially a continuous period, such as 1910–1919 or 2000–2009",
            "sensetop": "over a decadefor decades",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the early decades of the nineteenth century"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The nineties were a decade of rapid advances."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a career **spanning** five **decades**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's changed a lot over the **past decade**.",
                    "contextForm": "over a decade"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The war may be short but the environmental impacts could last for decades.",
                    "contextForm": "for decades"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now entering her fourth decade, the singer is living alone in New York."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This decade began badly for us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "almost a full decade of unparalleled economic growth"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["current", "present", "coming"],
                "verb + decade": ["spend", "span", "enter"],
                "decade + verb": ["elapse", "go by", "pass"],
                "preposition": [
                    "during a/​the decade",
                    "in a/​the decade",
                    "over a/​the decade"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdekeɪd//dɪˈkeɪd/",
                "audio": "de/decade/decade__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdekeɪd//dɪˈkeɪd/",
                "audio": "de/decade/decade__us_4.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent."
}