{
    "term": "west",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/co/compasses.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the direction that you look towards to see the sun go down; one of the four main points of the compass",
            "sensetop": "to the west (of…)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Which way is west?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rain is spreading from the west."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a west-facing window"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lives to the west of *(= further west than)* the town.",
                    "contextForm": "to the west (of…)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train line facilitates travel between east and west."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the western part of a country, region or city",
            "sensetop": "in the west",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The west of the country is especially popular with tourists."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Around 2 000 teachers from around the West of England attended the conference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Elsewhere in the West, wet, unsettled weather will continue until the weekend.",
                    "contextForm": "in the west"
                },
                {
                    "text": "House prices in the west have risen significantly over the last five years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's been a severe earthquake in the west of the country."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "Europe and North America, contrasted with other parts of the world",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was born in Japan, but I've lived in the West for some years now."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the western side of the US",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the history of the American West"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "Western Europe and North America, when contrasted with the Communist countries of Eastern Europe",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "East–West relations"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/west/",
                "audio": "we/west/west__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/west/",
                "audio": "we/west/west__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German west, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hesperos, Latin vesper ‘evening’."
}