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{
"term": "norm",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a situation or a pattern of behaviour that is usual or expected",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The new design is a departure from the norm."
},
{
"text": "Older parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays."
},
{
"text": "In the inner-city areas, poverty is the norm rather than the exception."
},
{
"text": "On-screen editing has become the norm for all student work."
},
{
"text": "Small families are the norm nowadays."
}
],
"synonyms": "rule (4)",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["accepted", "established", "ethical"],
"verb + norm": ["be", "become", "conform to"],
"preposition": ["above the norm", "below the norm", "over the norm"],
"phrases": [
"a departure from the norm",
"a deviation from the norm",
"an exception to the norm"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "standards of behaviour that are typical of or accepted within a particular group or society",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**social/cultural norms**"
},
{
"text": "She considered people to be products of the values and norms of the society they lived in."
},
{
"text": "accepted norms of behaviour"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["accepted", "established", "ethical"],
"verb + norm": ["be", "become", "conform to"],
"preposition": ["above the norm", "below the norm", "over the norm"],
"phrases": [
"a departure from the norm",
"a deviation from the norm",
"an exception to the norm"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a required or agreed standard, amount, etc.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "detailed education norms for children of particular ages"
},
{
"text": "The government claims that background radioactivity is well below international norms."
},
{
"text": "There is a comparison of each child with the age norms."
},
{
"text": "The revised norms are based on test scores of 2 050 children aged between five and ten."
},
{
"text": "Public examination systems set up a norm, on which each student is judged."
},
{
"text": "They want to discourage pay settlements over the norm."
},
{
"text": "accepted norms of international law"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nɔːm/",
"audio": "no/norm/norm__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nɔːrm/",
"audio": "no/norm/norm__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: from Latin norma ‘precept, rule, carpenter's square’."
}