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{
"term": "slender",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "thin in an attractive way",
"labels": "(approving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "her slender figure"
},
{
"text": "long, slender fingers"
},
{
"text": "a slender young woman"
},
{
"text": "Those jeans make you look very slender."
},
{
"text": "her boyishly slender figure"
}
],
"topics": ["Appearance"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"phrases": ["long slender…"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "thin or narrow",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a glass with a slender stem"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"phrases": ["long slender…"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "small in amount or size and hardly enough",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to win by a **slender margin/majority**"
},
{
"text": "people of **slender means** *(= with little money)*"
},
{
"text": "Australia held a slender 1–0 lead at half-time."
},
{
"text": "These claims are based on slender evidence."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "remain"],
"adverb": ["fairly", "pretty", "rather"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈslendə(r)/",
"audio": "sl/slender/slender__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈslendər/",
"audio": "sl/slender/slender__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: of unknown origin."
}