{
    "term": "hostility",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "aggressive or unfriendly feelings or behaviour",
            "sensetop": "hostility to/towards somebody/somethinghostility between A and B",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a barely veiled hostility in her tone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "feelings of hostility towards people from other backgrounds",
                    "contextForm": "hostility to/towards somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was **open hostility** between the two schools.",
                    "contextForm": "hostility between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You could almost feel the hostility between her and her mother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the deep hostility felt by many teenagers against the police"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The talk lasted well over an hour and he sensed a growing hostility from his audience."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the bitter hostility towards the occupying forces"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bitter", "considerable", "deep"],
                "verb + hostility": ["feel", "sense", "express"],
                "preposition": [
                    "hostility between",
                    "hostility against",
                    "hostility to"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "strong and angry opposition towards an idea, a plan or a situation",
            "sensetop": "hostility to/towards something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The proposal was met with outright hostility."
                },
                {
                    "text": "public hostility to nuclear power",
                    "contextForm": "hostility to/towards something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is still considerable public hostility towards nuclear power."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the widespread popular hostility to the war"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prime minister was concerned that such a move would arouse public hostility."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bitter", "considerable", "deep"],
                "verb + hostility": ["feel", "sense", "express"],
                "preposition": [
                    "hostility between",
                    "hostility against",
                    "hostility to"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "acts of fighting in a war",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **start/outbreak of hostilities** between the two sides"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **cessation of hostilities** *(= an end to fighting)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hostilities broke out between the two provinces later that year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hostilities were resumed later that year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On the 11th of November 1918 hostilities ceased."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the beginning of hostilities against Germany in 1914"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the official cessation of hostilities against Japan"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["War and conflict"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major", "active"],
                "verb + hostilities": ["cease", "end", "resume"],
                "hostilities + verb": ["begin", "break out", "commence"],
                "preposition": ["hostility against", "hostility between"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the cessation of hostilities",
                    "an outbreak of hostilities"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɒˈstɪləti/",
                "audio": "ho/hostility/hostility__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/hɑːˈstɪləti/",
                "audio": "ho/hostility/hostility__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from French hostilité or late Latin hostilitas, from Latin hostilis, from hostis ‘stranger, enemy’."
}