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{
"term": "arena",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a place with a flat open area in the middle and seats around it where people can watch sports and entertainment",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a concert at Wembley Arena"
},
{
"text": "an indoor **sports arena**"
},
{
"text": "a hockey/basketball arena"
},
{
"text": "plans to construct a new downtown arena"
},
{
"text": "He left the arena to loud applause."
},
{
"text": "The Hurricanes have a new home arena."
},
{
"text": "The rider has to halt the horse in the arena."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: other sports"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["Olympic", "sports", "training"],
"verb + arena": ["build", "leave"],
"arena + noun": ["floor"],
"preposition": ["in an/the arena", "into an/the arena"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an area of activity that interests the public, especially one where there is a lot of opposition between different groups or countries",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **political/international arena**"
},
{
"text": "I want to work outside the arena of competition."
},
{
"text": "Some documents have now emerged into the public arena."
},
{
"text": "The company has been very successful in the commercial arena."
},
{
"text": "The conference should provide an arena for marketing our new products."
},
{
"text": "This observation also applies in the environmental policy arena."
},
{
"text": "Trades unions are active both in individual workplaces and in the wider arena of the state."
},
{
"text": "the challenges of bringing a business into the online arena"
},
{
"text": "Space became an arena for global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["global", "international", "national"],
"verb + arena": ["create", "provide", "emerge into"],
"preposition": [
"in an/the arena",
"within an/the arena",
"outside an/the arena"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈriːnə/",
"audio": "ar/arena/arena__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈriːnə/",
"audio": "ar/arena/arena__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin harena, arena ‘sand, sand-strewn place of combat’."
}