{
    "term": "unity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of being in agreement and working together; the state of being joined together to form one unit",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "European unity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plea for unity within the party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "unity of purpose"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He restored peace and unity in the country after years of civil war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She brought unity to her people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The dispute has destroyed unity among the workers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We aim to promote national unity at a time of crisis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party is calling for greater political and economic unity in Europe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a degree of unity between faculty and students"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a government of national unity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a leader who gave her people a strong sense of unity"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complete", "greater", "essential"],
                "verb + unity": ["achieve", "bring", "bring about"],
                "preposition": ["in unity", "unity among", "unity between"],
                "phrases": ["a sense of unity", "a show of unity", "unity in diversity"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the quality of looking or being complete in a natural and attractive way",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The design lacks unity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the organic unity of Raphael's picture"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "any of the principles of classical or neoclassical theatre that limit the action of a play to a single story, day and place",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the unities of action, time and place"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a single thing that may consist of a number of different parts",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If society is to exist as a unity, its members must have shared values."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the number one",
            "labels": "(mathematics)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnəti/",
                "audio": "un/unity/unity__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnəti/",
                "audio": "un/unity/unity__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French unite, from Latin unitas, from unus ‘one’."
}