{
    "term": "habit",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a thing that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing",
            "sensetop": "habit of doing somethingin the habit of doing something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You need to change your **eating habits**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**good/bad habits**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of us **have** some undesirable **habits**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The strategy is helping children **develop the habit** of reading for fun.",
                    "contextForm": "habit of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's all right to borrow money occasionally, but don't **let it become a habit**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd prefer you not to **make a habit** of it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm trying to **break the habit** of staying up too late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not in the habit of letting strangers into my apartment.",
                    "contextForm": "in the habit of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've **got into the habit of** turning on the TV as soon as I get home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has some very annoying habits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has the irritating habit of biting his nails."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Healthy lifestyle habits begin when you're young."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found some of his personal habits rather disconcerting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I got out of the habit of getting up early."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had fallen into my old bad habit of leaving everything until the last minute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Make a habit of noting down any interesting ideas for songs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a nervous habit she'd had for years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's hard to change the habit of a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mental habits are not easily changed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pills affected your sleeping habits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an effort to change the buying habits of the British public"
                },
                {
                    "text": "women's television viewing habits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You must break yourself of the habit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of his more endearing habits"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
                "verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
                "habit + verb": ["change"],
                "preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a creature of habit",
                    "force of habit",
                    "the habit of a lifetime"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "usual behaviour",
            "sensetop": "out of habit",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I only do it out of habit.",
                    "contextForm": "out of habit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm a **creature of habit** *(= I have a fixed and regular way of doing things)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr Norris woke up early from force of habit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
                "verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
                "habit + verb": ["change"],
                "preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a creature of habit",
                    "force of habit",
                    "the habit of a lifetime"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a strong need to keep using drugs, alcohol or cigarettes regularly",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He began to finance his habit through burglary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's tried to give up smoking but just can't **kick the habit**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 50-a-day habit"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["annoying", "antisocial", "bad"],
                "verb + habit": ["be in", "have", "acquire"],
                "habit + verb": ["change"],
                "preposition": ["by habit", "from habit", "out of habit"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a creature of habit",
                    "force of habit",
                    "the habit of a lifetime"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a long piece of clothing worn by a monk or nun",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you do something from or out of force of habit, you do it without thinking about it and in a particular way because you have always done it that way in the past",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's force of habit that gets me out of bed at 6.15 each morning."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhæbɪt/",
                "audio": "ha/habit/habit__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhæbɪt/",
                "audio": "ha/habit/habit__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus ‘condition, appearance’, from habere ‘have, consist of’. The term originally meant ‘dress, attire’, later coming to denote physical or mental constitution."
}