{
    "term": "desert",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it. Many deserts are covered by sand.",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Sahara Desert"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Somalia is mostly desert."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They travelled many miles across burning desert sands."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Occasionally, we passed a desert oasis surrounded by small tracts of grass and shrub."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The town has become a cultural desert *(= a place without any culture)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He drove off into the desert."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The desert stretched for endless miles on all sides of us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land loses its protective cover of vegetation and soon turns into desert."
                },
                {
                    "text": "cold nights in the desert"
                },
                {
                    "text": "green fields surrounded by arid desert"
                },
                {
                    "text": "their journey across the desert"
                },
                {
                    "text": "vast tracts of desert land"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["arid", "barren", "dry"],
                "verb + desert": ["become", "turn into", "turn to"],
                "desert + verb": ["stretch"],
                "desert + noun": ["area", "country", "land"],
                "preposition": [
                    "across the desert",
                    "through the desert",
                    "in the desert"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdezət/",
                "audio": "de/desert/desert__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdezərt/",
                "audio": "de/desert/desert__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun Middle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’."
}