{
    "term": "domain",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an area of knowledge or activity; especially one that somebody is responsible for",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Financial matters are her domain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Physics used to be very much a male domain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "things that happen outside the domain of the home"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["private", "public", "Internet"],
                "domain + noun": ["name", "registration"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the domain",
                    "within a/​the domain",
                    "outside a/​the domain"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a set of websites on the internet that end with the same group of letters, for example ‘.com’, ‘.org’",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "top-level domains"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["private", "public", "Internet"],
                "domain + noun": ["name", "registration"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the domain",
                    "within a/​the domain",
                    "outside a/​the domain"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "lands owned or ruled by a particular person, government, etc., especially in the past",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the range of possible values of a particular variable",
            "labels": "(mathematics)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dəˈmeɪn//dəʊˈmeɪn/",
                "audio": "do/domain/domain__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dəʊˈmeɪn/",
                "audio": "do/domain/domain__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting heritable or landed property): from French domaine, alteration (by association with Latin dominus ‘lord’) of Old French demeine ‘belonging to a lord’, from Latin dominicus, from dominus ‘lord, master’."
}