{
    "term": "tower",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/ar/architecture.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a tall narrow building or part of a building, especially of a church or castle",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **bell tower**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Eiffel Tower"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 19-storey office tower"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The castle is rectangular in shape, with a tower at each corner."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Armed guards manned the lookout towers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They lived in a ten-storey tower in the town centre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Twin towers flanked the castle gateway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the spot where the towers once stood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The brick tower was built in around four months."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings", "Religion and festivals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "high-rise", "lofty"],
                "tower + verb": ["collapse", "fall", "stand"],
                "tower + noun": ["block"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a tall structure used for sending television or radio signals",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a television tower"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a tall piece of furniture used for storing things",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a CD tower"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person that you can rely on to help, protect and comfort you when you are in trouble",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a tower of strength to his sisters when their father died."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtaʊə(r)/",
                "audio": "to/tower/tower__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtaʊər/",
                "audio": "to/tower/tower__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English torr, reinforced in Middle English by Old French tour, from Latin turris, from Greek."
}