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{
"term": "elegant",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "attractive and showing a good sense of style",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was tall and elegant."
},
{
"text": "The diners all looked effortlessly elegant."
},
{
"text": "He cut an elegant figure in a dark suit."
}
],
"synonyms": "stylish",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "attractive and designed well",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an elegant dress"
},
{
"text": "an elegant room/restaurant"
},
{
"text": "The beautifully elegant spire rises to a height of 80 metres."
},
{
"text": "the foyer of an impossibly elegant Paris hotel"
},
{
"text": "Guests can dine and relax in comfortable elegant surroundings."
},
{
"text": "the artist's supremely elegant portraits of society beauties"
},
{
"text": "She was looking for something cool and elegant to wear."
}
],
"synonyms": "stylish",
"topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "clever but simple",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an elegant solution to the problem"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈelɪɡənt/",
"audio": "el/elegant/elegant__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈelɪɡənt/",
"audio": "el/elegant/elegant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French, or from Latin elegans, elegant-, related to eligere ‘choose, select’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’."
}