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{
"term": "idiot",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a rude way to refer to somebody who you think is very stupid",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "When I lost my passport, I felt such an idiot."
},
{
"text": "What idiot pressed the switch?"
},
{
"text": "She was grinning like an absolute idiot."
},
{
"text": "He's made a complete idiot of himself over this woman!"
},
{
"text": "I felt like a complete idiot, standing there in front of all those people!"
},
{
"text": "She called me an idiot."
},
{
"text": "He knew he was acting like an idiot."
},
{
"text": "What stupid idiot left their shoes on the stairs?"
},
{
"text": "I just stood there like an idiot with my mouth open."
},
{
"text": "I realized I was dealing with a bunch of idiots."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["babbling", "big", "blithering"],
"verb + idiot": ["be", "feel", "feel like"],
"phrases": ["make an idiot of yourself"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a word for a person with very low intelligence that is now considered offensive",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, offensive)",
"examples": [],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["babbling", "big", "blithering"],
"verb + idiot": ["be", "feel", "feel like"],
"phrases": ["make an idiot of yourself"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɪdiət/",
"audio": "id/idiot/idiot__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɪdiət/",
"audio": "id/idiot/idiot__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a person of low intelligence): via Old French from Latin idiota ‘ignorant person’, from Greek idiōtēs ‘private person, layman, ignorant person’, from idios ‘own, private’."
}