word-vault/dist/data/cards/tr/trait.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "trait",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a particular quality in your personality",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "personality traits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Awareness of class is a typically British trait."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She shares several character traits with her father."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We do not know which behavioural traits are inherited and which acquired."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a collection of traits associated with schizophrenia"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["admirable", "attractive", "desirable"],
                "verb + trait": ["have", "possess", "lack"],
                "trait + verb": ["(be) associated with"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/treɪt/",
                "audio": "tr/trait/trait__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/treɪt/",
                "audio": "tr/trait/trait__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’. An early sense was ‘stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture’, giving rise to the sense ‘a particular feature of mind or character’ (mid 18th cent.)."
}