{
    "term": "tobacco",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the dried leaves of the tobacco plant that are used for making cigarettes, smoking in a pipe, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "tobacco smoke"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government imposed a ban on tobacco advertising *(= the advertising of cigarettes and all other forms of )."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several different tobaccos are grown on the land."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["strong", "stale", "pipe"],
                "verb + tobacco": ["chew", "smoke", "use"],
                "tobacco + noun": ["addiction", "consumption", "use"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təˈbækəʊ/",
                "audio": "to/tobacco/tobacco__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təˈbækəʊ/",
                "audio": "to/tobacco/tobacco__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Spanish tabaco; said to be from a Carib word denoting a tobacco pipe or from a Taino word for a primitive cigar, but perhaps from Arabic."
}