{
    "term": "lawn",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/ho/house_2.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an area of ground covered in short grass in a garden or park, or used for playing a game on",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hotel boasts two tennis courts and a croquet lawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They served afternoon tea on the lawn *(= a large area of grass, near a big house, for example)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cottage sits on a hill above a sweep of lawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lawn really needs mowing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a carefully tended lawn"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the correct way to maintain a lawn"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They walked across the lawn towards the river."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Gardens"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["manicured", "neat", "well-tended"],
                "verb + lawn": ["cut", "mow", "trim"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a type of fine cotton or linen cloth used for making clothes",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɔːn/",
                "audio": "la/lawn/lawn__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɔːn/",
                "audio": "la/lawn/lawn__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "sense 1 mid 16th cent.: alteration of dialect laund ‘glade, pasture’, from Old French launde ‘wooded district, heath’, of Celtic origin. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.sense 2 Middle English: probably from Laon, the name of a city in France important for linen manufacture."
}