{
    "term": "secret",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "known about by only a few people; kept hidden from others",
            "sensetop": "secret from somebody",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**secret information/meetings/talks**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They belong to an age-old **secret society**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He tried to **keep it secret** from his family.",
                    "contextForm": "secret from somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Details of the proposals remain secret."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a secret passage leading to the beach"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two candidates were chosen by a **secret ballot** *(= in which nobody knows how you voted)* of MPs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a natural salesman, whose **secret weapon** is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The group is on a highly secret mission."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Secret police documents were leaked to the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The scandal was kept secret from the French public for 18 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What could be so secret that it had to stay hidden?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ceasefire was agreed following secret talks between the two leaders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "revealing the text of the hitherto secret treaty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They managed to keep the party more or less secret from Christine."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "remain", "stay"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "top", "very"],
                "preposition": ["from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to describe actions and behaviour that you do not tell other people about",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's a secret drinker."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't know you were a secret football fan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her secret fears"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Perhaps he has secret hopes that she'll go back to him."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "remain", "stay"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "top", "very"],
                "preposition": ["from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "liking to have secrets that other people do not know about; showing this",
            "sensetop": "secret (about something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They were so secret about everything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jessica caught a secret smile flitting between the two of them."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsiːkrət/",
                "audio": "se/secret/secret__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsiːkrət/",
                "audio": "se/secret/secret__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin secretus (adjective) ‘separate, set apart’, from the verb secernere, from se- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘sift’."
}