{
    "term": "elegant",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "attractive and showing a good sense of style",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was tall and elegant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The diners all looked effortlessly elegant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He cut an elegant figure in a dark suit."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "stylish",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "attractive and designed well",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an elegant dress"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an elegant room/restaurant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The beautifully elegant spire rises to a height of 80 metres."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the foyer of an impossibly elegant Paris hotel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Guests can dine and relax in comfortable elegant surroundings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the artist's supremely elegant portraits of society beauties"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was looking for something cool and elegant to wear."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "stylish",
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "clever but simple",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an elegant solution to the problem"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈelɪɡənt/",
                "audio": "el/elegant/elegant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈelɪɡənt/",
                "audio": "el/elegant/elegant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French, or from Latin elegans, elegant-, related to eligere ‘choose, select’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’."
}