word-vault/dist/data/cards/el/elaborate.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "elaborate",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very complicated and detailed; carefully prepared and organized",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "elaborate designs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had prepared a very elaborate meal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an elaborate computer system"
                },
                {
                    "text": "highly elaborate carvings"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It all turned out to be an elaborate hoax."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ceiling was tiled in an elaborate pattern."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This elaborate deception fooled his family for ages."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlæbərət/",
                "audio": "el/elaborate/elaborate__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlæbərət/",
                "audio": "el/elaborate/elaborate__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labour’): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’."
}