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{
"term": "secret",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "known about by only a few people; kept hidden from others",
"sensetop": "secret from somebody",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**secret information/meetings/talks**"
},
{
"text": "They belong to an age-old **secret society**."
},
{
"text": "He tried to **keep it secret** from his family.",
"contextForm": "secret from somebody"
},
{
"text": "Details of the proposals remain secret."
},
{
"text": "a secret passage leading to the beach"
},
{
"text": "The two candidates were chosen by a **secret ballot** *(= in which nobody knows how you voted)* of MPs."
},
{
"text": "He's a natural salesman, whose **secret weapon** is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes."
},
{
"text": "The group is on a highly secret mission."
},
{
"text": "Secret police documents were leaked to the press."
},
{
"text": "The scandal was kept secret from the French public for 18 years."
},
{
"text": "What could be so secret that it had to stay hidden?"
},
{
"text": "The ceasefire was agreed following secret talks between the two leaders."
},
{
"text": "revealing the text of the hitherto secret treaty"
},
{
"text": "They managed to keep the party more or less secret from Christine."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "remain", "stay"],
"adverb": ["highly", "top", "very"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "used to describe actions and behaviour that you do not tell other people about",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's a secret drinker."
},
{
"text": "I didn't know you were a secret football fan."
},
{
"text": "her secret fears"
},
{
"text": "Perhaps he has secret hopes that she'll go back to him."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "remain", "stay"],
"adverb": ["highly", "top", "very"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "liking to have secrets that other people do not know about; showing this",
"sensetop": "secret (about something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were so secret about everything."
},
{
"text": "Jessica caught a secret smile flitting between the two of them."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsiːkrət/",
"audio": "se/secret/secret__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsiːkrət/",
"audio": "se/secret/secret__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin secretus (adjective) ‘separate, set apart’, from the verb secernere, from se- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘sift’."
}