{
    "term": "tragedy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a very sad event or situation, especially one that involves death",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**It's a tragedy** that she died so young."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Tragedy struck** the family when their son was hit by a car and killed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole affair **ended in tragedy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had seen the tragedy unfold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The closure of the factory is a tragedy for the whole community."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "appalling", "awful"],
                "verb + tragedy": ["end in", "be dogged by", "experience"],
                "tragedy + verb": ["befall somebody", "happen", "occur"],
                "preposition": ["tragedy for somebody"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a serious play with a sad ending, especially one in which the main character dies; plays of this type",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Shakespeare’s tragedies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Greek tragedy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Revenge tragedies were very popular in Elizabethan England."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Film and theatre"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["classical", "Greek", "Jacobean"],
                "verb + tragedy": ["write"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtrædʒədi/",
                "audio": "tr/tragedy/tragedy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtrædʒədi/",
                "audio": "tr/tragedy/tragedy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French tragedie, via Latin from Greek tragōidia, apparently from tragos ‘goat’ (the reason remains unexplained) + ōidē ‘song, ode’. Compare with tragic."
}