{
    "term": "enthusiast",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who is very interested in something and spends a lot of time doing it",
            "sensetop": "enthusiast of somethingenthusiast for something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a football enthusiast"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an enthusiast of jazz",
                    "contextForm": "enthusiast of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was an enthusiast for early Italian art.",
                    "contextForm": "enthusiast for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Railway enthusiasts were given the chance to ride on the old steam train during the weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a lifelong enthusiast of dancing, running and waterskiing."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who approves of something and shows enthusiasm for it",
            "sensetop": "enthusiast for somethingenthusiast of something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "enthusiasts for a united Europe",
                    "contextForm": "enthusiast for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are great enthusiasts of the American work ethic.",
                    "contextForm": "enthusiast of something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈθjuːziæst/",
                "audio": "en/enthusiast/enthusiast__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈθuːziæst/",
                "audio": "en/enthusiast/enthusiast__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (denoting a person believing that they are divinely inspired): from French enthousiaste or ecclesiastical Latin enthusiastes ‘member of a heretical sect’, from Greek enthousiastēs ‘person inspired by a god’, from the adjective enthous ‘possessed by a god, inspired’ (based on theos ‘god’)."
}