word-vault/dist/data/cards/di/diary.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "diary",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a book in which you can write down the experiences you have each day, your private thoughts, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in a diary",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you **keep a diary** *(= write one regularly)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Peter began writing his diary in October last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the diaries of Samuel Pepys"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writer's letters and diaries are being published next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think I'm going to start an online diary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a travel/sleep/food diary"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘It's all over,’ he wrote in his diary for April 21.",
                    "contextForm": "in a diary"
                },
                {
                    "text": "her **diary entry** for 9 December 2017"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He jotted down observations on the animals' habits in his field diary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I started keeping a diary when I was thirteen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No one is allowed to read my diary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I used to keep a secret diary when I was a teenager."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She writes her thoughts down in her personal diary every night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The captain recorded in his diary that food supplies were running low."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The play is based on the diary of Anne Frank."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was the very last entry in her diary."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["detailed", "daily", "personal"],
                "verb + diary": ["keep", "note something in", "record something in"],
                "diary + noun": ["entry"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​your diary"],
                "phrases": ["an entry in a diary"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a book or an app with spaces for each day of the year in which you can record things you have to do in the future",
            "sensetop": "in a diary",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I used to keep a desk diary for business appointments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an appointments diary"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've made a note in my diary.",
                    "contextForm": "in a diary"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't have the meeting in my diary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Put it in your diary before you forget."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid my diary is full for this week, but I could see you next Monday."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["appointments", "bookings", "engagement"],
                "verb + diary": [
                    "have something in",
                    "put something in",
                    "write something in"
                ],
                "preposition": ["in a/​your diary"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdaɪəri/",
                "audio": "di/diary/diary__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdaɪəri/",
                "audio": "di/diary/diary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from Latin diarium, from dies ‘day’."
}