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{
"term": "essay",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a short piece of writing by a student as part of a course of study",
"sensetop": "essay on somethingessay about somebody/somethingin an essay",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I have to **write an essay** this weekend."
},
{
"text": "an essay on the causes of the First World War",
"contextForm": "essay on something"
},
{
"text": "Have you done your essay about Napoleon yet?",
"contextForm": "essay about somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He made some very good points in his essay.",
"contextForm": "in an essay"
},
{
"text": "Essays handed in late will not be accepted."
},
{
"text": "Have you done your essay yet?"
},
{
"text": "He concludes the essay by calling for a corrective."
},
{
"text": "I finished my essay about 10 o'clock last night!"
},
{
"text": "Lunch was the only time she could finish her essay assignment."
},
{
"text": "We have to write an essay on the environment."
},
{
"text": "You have to answer 3 out of 8 essay questions in the exam."
},
{
"text": "the teenage winner of an essay contest"
},
{
"text": "We have to write an essay on the causes of the First World War."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"… of essays": ["anthology", "collection", "selection"],
"verb + essay": ["do", "write", "finish"],
"essay + verb": [
"be entitled something",
"be titled something",
"address something"
],
"essay + noun": ["question", "title", "topic"],
"preposition": ["in an/the essay", "essay about", "essay on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a short piece of writing on a particular subject, written in order to be published",
"sensetop": "essay (by somebody)essay on somebody/somethingessay about somebody/somethingin an essay",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a collection of essays by prominent African American writers",
"contextForm": "essay (by somebody)"
},
{
"text": "The book contains a number of interesting essays on women in society.",
"contextForm": "essay on somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Pierce contributes a long essay about John F. Kennedy.",
"contextForm": "essay about somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "I discuss this in a forthcoming essay.",
"contextForm": "in an essay"
},
{
"text": "A version of this essay was presented at the Astronomical Society."
},
{
"text": "In 2001 she published a collection of essays."
},
{
"text": "The essays explore Einstein's personal development."
},
{
"text": "the fifteen essays collected in this volume"
},
{
"text": "‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ by Thomas Malthus"
},
{
"text": "an essay entitled ‘Memory’"
},
{
"text": "This essay provides a comprehensive overview of the subject."
}
],
"collocations": {
"… of essays": ["anthology", "collection", "selection"],
"verb + essay": ["do", "write", "finish"],
"essay + verb": [
"be entitled something",
"be titled something",
"address something"
],
"essay + noun": ["question", "title", "topic"],
"preposition": ["in an/the essay", "essay about", "essay on"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "an attempt to do something",
"sensetop": "essay (in something)",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His first essay in politics was a complete disaster."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeseɪ/",
"audio": "es/essay/essay__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeseɪ/",
"audio": "es/essay/essay__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘test the quality of’): alteration of assay, by association with Old French essayer, based on late Latin exagium ‘weighing’, from the base of exigere ‘ascertain, weigh’; the noun (late 16th cent.) is from Old French essai ‘trial’."
}