word-vault/dist/data/cards/ab/absent.json

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{
    "term": "absent",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not in a place because of illness, etc.",
            "sensetop": "absent (from…)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was absent from work for two weeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "remain"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "quite"],
                "preposition": ["from"],
                "phrases": ["absent without leave"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not present in something",
            "sensetop": "absent (from something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Love was totally absent from his childhood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She now played with a passion that had been strangely absent from her previous performance."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "remain"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "quite"],
                "preposition": ["from"],
                "phrases": ["absent without leave"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "showing that you are not really looking at or thinking about what is happening around you",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an absent expression"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæbsənt/",
                "audio": "ab/absent/absent__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæbsənt/",
                "audio": "ab/absent/absent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin absens, absent- ‘being absent’, present participle of abesse, from ab- ‘from, away’ + esse ‘to be’."
}