{
    "term": "spectator",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who is watching an event, especially a sports event",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new football stadium will hold 75 000 spectators."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thousands of spectators lined the route of the royal procession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was rendered a virtual spectator for large parts of the game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Spectators lined the route of the president's walkabout."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The stadium will seat 60 000 spectators."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This year's festival attracted 87 000 spectators."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think soccer is the best spectator sport there is."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: other sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["mere", "passive", "silent"],
                "… of spectators": ["crowd"],
                "verb + spectator": ["attract", "draw", "seat"],
                "spectator + verb": ["gather", "turn up", "line something"],
                "spectator + noun": ["event", "sport"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/spekˈteɪtə(r)/",
                "audio": "sp/spectator/spectator__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈspekteɪtər/",
                "audio": "sp/spectator/spectator__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French spectateur or Latin spectator, from spectare ‘gaze at, observe’, frequentative of specere ‘to look’."
}