{
    "term": "thesis",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a long piece of writing completed by a student as part of a university degree, based on their own research",
            "sensetop": "thesis (on something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Students must submit a thesis on an agreed subject within four years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He presented this thesis for his PhD."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a thesis for a master's degree"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's doing a doctoral thesis on the early works of Shostakovich."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many departments require their students to do a thesis defense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She completed an MSc by thesis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her thesis adviser at MIT"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["doctoral", "honors", "MA"],
                "verb + thesis": ["do", "work on", "write"],
                "thesis + noun": ["project", "research", "topic"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the thesis", "thesis about", "thesis on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a statement or an opinion that is discussed in a logical way and presented with evidence in order to prove that it is true",
            "sensetop": "thesis (that…)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The basic thesis of the book is fairly simple."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These latest findings support the thesis that sexuality is determined by nature rather than choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The results of the experiment support his central thesis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most people rejected this thesis at the time because it presumed evolution rather than creation."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Scientific research"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["basic", "central", "fundamental"],
                "verb + thesis": ["prove", "support", "disprove"],
                "preposition": ["thesis about"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθiːsɪs/",
                "audio": "th/thesis/thesis__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθiːsiːz/",
                "audio": "th/thesis/theses__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθiːsɪs/",
                "audio": "th/thesis/thesis__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈθiːsiːz/",
                "audio": "th/thesis/theses__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (originally referring to an unstressed syllable in Greek or Latin verse): via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘placing, a proposition’, from the root of tithenai ‘to place’."
}