{
    "term": "literary",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with literature",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**literary criticism/theory**"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "suitable for or typical of a work of literature",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was Chaucer who really turned English into a literary language."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "liking literature very much; studying or writing literature",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a literary man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was one of the great literary figures of her age."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪtərəri/",
                "audio": "li/literary/literary__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlɪtəreri/",
                "audio": "li/literary/literary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to the letters of the alphabet’): from Latin litterarius, from littera ‘letter of the alphabet’, (plural) ‘epistle, literature, culture’."
}