{
    "term": "discourse",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a long and serious treatment or discussion of a subject in speech or writing",
            "sensetop": "discourse on something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a discourse on issues of gender and sexuality",
                    "contextForm": "discourse on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was hoping for some lively political discourse at the meeting."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the use of language in speech and writing in order to produce meaning; language that is studied, usually in order to see how the different parts of a text are connected",
            "labels": "(linguistics)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**spoken/written discourse**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "discourse analysis"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪskɔːs/",
                "audio": "di/discourse/discourse__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɪskɔːrs/",
                "audio": "di/discourse/discourse__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus ‘running to and fro’ (in medieval Latin: ‘argument’), from the verb discurrere, from dis- ‘away’ + currere ‘to run’; the verb influenced by French discourir."
}