{
    "term": "dominant",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "more important, powerful or easy to notice than other things",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The firm has achieved a dominant position in the world market."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dominant feature of the room was the large fireplace."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Banks have a dominant role in most countries' economies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "London is dominant within the UK economy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No one group appears to be overwhelmingly dominant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The state of the economy has been the dominant theme of the election."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a dominant gene causes a person to have a particular physical characteristic, for example brown eyes, even if only one of their parents has passed on this gene",
            "labels": "(biology)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Biology"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɒmɪnənt/",
                "audio": "do/dominant/dominant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɑːmɪnənt/",
                "audio": "do/dominant/dominant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dominant- ‘ruling, governing’, from the verb dominari, from dominus ‘lord, master’."
}