{
    "term": "forest",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/mo/mountains.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large area of land that is thickly covered with trees",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a tropical/pine forest"
                },
                {
                    "text": "One careless match can start a **forest fire**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the forest floor/canopy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forest is being cleared to make way for new farming land."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He warned her never to enter the forest at night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Much of Europe was once covered in forest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They got lost in the forest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thick forest stretched as far as the eye could see."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We slashed our way through the dense forest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a large stretch of virgin forest"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The species is found in both coniferous and deciduous forests."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dense", "thick", "impenetrable"],
                "… of forest": ["stretch", "tract"],
                "verb + forest": ["plant", "clear", "cut down"],
                "forest + verb": ["stretch", "surround"],
                "forest + noun": ["tree", "floor", "canopy"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the forest", "through a/​the forest"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the edge of the forest",
                    "the heart of the forest",
                    "the middle of the forest"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a mass of tall narrow objects that are close together",
            "sensetop": "forest (of something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a forest of cranes on the skyline"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to not see or understand the main point about something, because you are paying too much attention to small details",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɒrɪst/",
                "audio": "fo/forest/forest__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɔːrɪst/",
                "audio": "fo/forest/forest__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva) , literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’, from fores ‘door’."
}