{
    "term": "manuscript",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a copy of a book, piece of music, etc. before it has been printed",
            "sensetop": "in manuscript",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an **unpublished/original manuscript**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read her poems in manuscript.",
                    "contextForm": "in manuscript"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He submitted the manuscript to an editor at Longman."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was delighted when the manuscript was accepted for publication."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I only have one copy of the manuscript."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The text ran to dozens of pages in manuscript form."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the original autograph manuscript of the poem"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["original", "autograph", "handwritten"],
                "… of manuscript": ["copy"],
                "verb + manuscript": ["write", "prepare", "type"],
                "manuscript + noun": ["page", "form", "submission"],
                "preposition": ["in manuscript"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a very old book or document that was written by hand before printing was invented",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "medieval illuminated manuscripts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the surviving manuscript of ‘Beowulf’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "One contemporary manuscript shows Henry II crowned by the hand of Christ."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["ancient", "early", "medieval"],
                "manuscript + verb": ["survive"],
                "manuscript + noun": ["illumination", "collection"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmænjuskrɪpt/",
                "audio": "ma/manuscript/manuscript__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmænjuskrɪpt/",
                "audio": "ma/manuscript/manuscript__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin manuscriptus, from manu ‘by hand’ + scriptus ‘written’ (past participle of scribere)."
}