{
    "term": "idiot",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a rude way to refer to somebody who you think is very stupid",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When I lost my passport, I felt such an idiot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What idiot pressed the switch?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was grinning like an absolute idiot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's made a complete idiot of himself over this woman!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt like a complete idiot, standing there in front of all those people!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She called me an idiot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He knew he was acting like an idiot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What stupid idiot left their shoes on the stairs?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I just stood there like an idiot with my mouth open."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I realized I was dealing with a bunch of idiots."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["babbling", "big", "blithering"],
                "verb + idiot": ["be", "feel", "feel like"],
                "phrases": ["make an idiot of yourself"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a word for a person with very low intelligence that is now considered offensive",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, offensive)",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["babbling", "big", "blithering"],
                "verb + idiot": ["be", "feel", "feel like"],
                "phrases": ["make an idiot of yourself"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪdiət/",
                "audio": "id/idiot/idiot__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪdiət/",
                "audio": "id/idiot/idiot__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from idios ‘own, private’."
}