{
    "term": "imagery",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "language that produces pictures in the minds of people reading or listening",
            "labels": "(US English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "poetic imagery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He evokes complex imagery with a single well-placed word."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Illustration may come between the text and the reader's own mental imagery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poem is full of religious imagery."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["evocative", "graphic", "powerful"],
                "verb + imagery": ["draw on", "employ", "use"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "pictures, photographs, etc.",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "satellite imagery *(= for example, photographs of the earth taken from space)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She worked on the computer-generated imagery for the movie."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team used aerial imagery to recreate the scene."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cartoons featured racist and insensitive imagery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Visual imagery is very compelling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The montages contain vivid and disturbing imagery."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["evocative", "graphic", "powerful"],
                "verb + imagery": ["draw on", "employ", "use"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmɪdʒəri/",
                "audio": "im/imagery/imagery__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmɪdʒəri/",
                "audio": "im/imagery/imagery__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the senses ‘statuary, carved images collectively’): from Old French imagerie, from imager ‘make an image’, from image, from Latin imago."
}