word-vault/dist/data/cards/se/secondary.json

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{
    "term": "secondary",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with teaching children of 11–18 years",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "secondary teachers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the secondary curriculum"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "less important than something else",
            "sensetop": "secondary to something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That is just a secondary consideration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Experience is what matters—age is of secondary importance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.",
                    "contextForm": "secondary to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a while, his writing became secondary to his celebrity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forests are secondary in importance only to the oceans in their effects on the earth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The characters and plot become secondary to the setting and atmosphere."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "happening as a result of something else",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a secondary infection"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a secondary effect"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a secondary colour *(= made from mixing two primary colours)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a secondary outcome"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Change, cause and effect"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsekəndri/",
                "audio": "se/secondary/secondary__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsekənderi/",
                "audio": "se/secondary/secondary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin secundarius ‘of the second quality or class’, from secundus ‘following, second’, from the base of sequi ‘follow’."
}