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{
"term": "smart",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "looking clean and neat; well dressed in fashionable and/or formal clothes",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I have to be smart for work."
},
{
"text": "You look very smart in that suit."
},
{
"text": "She was incredibly smart in navy blue silk."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "clean, neat and looking new and attractive",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a smart suit"
},
{
"text": "They were wearing their smartest clothes."
},
{
"text": "She was wearing a smart red coat."
},
{
"text": "They wear smart blue uniforms."
},
{
"text": "smart new shoes"
},
{
"text": "The car was a smart two-seater."
},
{
"text": "The restaurant has a smart new décor."
}
],
"topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "intelligent",
"sensetop": "it is smart to do something",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(especially North American English)especially British English",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He is obviously a **smart guy**."
},
{
"text": "Why do **smart people** do such stupid things?"
},
{
"text": "She's smarter than her brother."
},
{
"text": "That was a **smart** career **move**."
},
{
"text": "OK, I admit it was not the **smartest thing** I ever did *(= it was a stupid thing to do)*"
},
{
"text": "He is too ambitious, too smart for his own good."
},
{
"text": "It's always smart to have a Plan B.",
"contextForm": "it is smart to do something"
},
{
"text": "She's smart enough to know what works and what doesn't."
},
{
"text": "If you're smart, you'll take my advice."
},
{
"text": "Companies are getting smart about how they use corporate planes."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "controlled by a computer, so that it appears to act in an intelligent way",
"examples": [
{
"text": "smart bombs"
},
{
"text": "This smart washing machine will dispense an optimal amount of water for the load."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "connected with fashionable, rich people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "smart restaurants"
},
{
"text": "She mixes with **the smart set** *(= fashionable, rich people)*."
},
{
"text": "She was one of the smart set in the 1920s."
},
{
"text": "The reception would be very grand and smart."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "quick and usually done with force",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was struck with a smart crack on the head."
},
{
"text": "We set off at a smart pace."
}
],
"synonyms": "brisk"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/smɑːt/",
"audio": "sm/smart/smart__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/smɑːrt/",
"audio": "sm/smart/smart__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English smeortan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to German schmerzen; the adjective is related to the verb, the original sense (late Old English) being ‘causing sharp pain’; from this arose ‘keen, brisk’, which led to the current senses of ‘mentally sharp’ and ‘neat in a brisk, sharp style’."
}