{
    "term": "junction",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the place where two or more roads or railway lines meet",
            "labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was near the junction of City Road and Old Street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Come off the motorway at junction 6."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the 19th century the town became an important railway junction."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by bus and train"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["busy", "dangerous", "motorway"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the junction", "junction with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a place where two or more cables, rivers or other things meet or are joined",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a telephone junction box"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the junction between nerves and muscles"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["busy", "dangerous", "motorway"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the junction", "junction with"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/",
                "audio": "ju/junction/junction__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/",
                "audio": "ju/junction/junction__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 18th cent. (originally meaning the action or fact of being joined): from Latin junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’."
}