{
    "term": "linger",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "linger",
            "heSheIt": "lingers"
        },
        "pastSimple": "lingered",
        "pastParticiple": "lingered",
        "ingForm": "lingering"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to continue to exist for longer than expected",
            "sensetop": "linger on",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The civil war lingered on well into the 1930s.",
                    "contextForm": "linger on"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It will linger forever in the minds of many people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The feelings of hurt and resentment lingered on for years."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
                "preposition": ["on", "over"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stay somewhere for longer because you do not want to leave; to spend a long time doing something",
            "sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She lingered for a few minutes to talk to Nick."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We lingered over breakfast on the terrace."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
                "preposition": ["on", "over"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to continue to look at somebody/something or think about something for longer than usual",
            "sensetop": "linger (on somebody/something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His eyes lingered on the diamond ring on her finger."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
                "preposition": ["on", "over"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to stay alive but become weaker",
            "sensetop": "linger (on)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He lingered on for several months after the heart attack."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
                "preposition": ["on", "over"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡə(r)/",
                "audio": "li/linger/linger__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡəz/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingers__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡəd/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingered__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingering__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡər/",
                "audio": "li/linger/linger__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərz/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingers__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərd/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingered__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "li/linger/lingering__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘dwell, abide’): frequentative of obsolete leng ‘prolong’, of Germanic origin; related to German längen ‘make long(er)’, also to long."
}