{
    "term": "oral",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "spoken rather than written",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a test of both oral and written French"
                },
                {
                    "text": "oral evidence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "stories passed on by oral tradition"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with the mouth",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "oral hygiene"
                },
                {
                    "text": "oral sex (= using the mouth to somebody’s sex organs)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an oral contraceptive *(= that is swallowed like medicine)*"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Body"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "produced by allowing air to flow through the mouth but not the nose",
            "labels": "(phonetics)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːrəl/",
                "audio": "or/oral/oral__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːrəl/",
                "audio": "or/oral/oral__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from late Latin oralis, from Latin os, or- ‘mouth’."
}