{
    "term": "militant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who uses, or is willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve their aims, especially to achieve social or political change",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Student militants were fighting with the police."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɪlɪtənt/",
                "audio": "mi/militant/militant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmɪlɪtənt/",
                "audio": "mi/militant/militant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘engaged in warfare’): from Old French, or from Latin militant- ‘serving as a soldier’, from the verb militare, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent."
}