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{
"term": "unity",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being in agreement and working together; the state of being joined together to form one unit",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "European unity"
},
{
"text": "a plea for unity within the party"
},
{
"text": "unity of purpose"
},
{
"text": "He restored peace and unity in the country after years of civil war."
},
{
"text": "She brought unity to her people."
},
{
"text": "The dispute has destroyed unity among the workers."
},
{
"text": "We aim to promote national unity at a time of crisis."
},
{
"text": "The party is calling for greater political and economic unity in Europe."
},
{
"text": "a degree of unity between faculty and students"
},
{
"text": "a government of national unity"
},
{
"text": "a leader who gave her people a strong sense of unity"
}
],
"topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["complete", "greater", "essential"],
"verb + unity": ["achieve", "bring", "bring about"],
"preposition": ["in unity", "unity among", "unity between"],
"phrases": ["a sense of unity", "a show of unity", "unity in diversity"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the quality of looking or being complete in a natural and attractive way",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The design lacks unity."
},
{
"text": "the organic unity of Raphael's picture"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "any of the principles of classical or neoclassical theatre that limit the action of a play to a single story, day and place",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the unities of action, time and place"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a single thing that may consist of a number of different parts",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "If society is to exist as a unity, its members must have shared values."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "the number one",
"labels": "(mathematics)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnəti/",
"audio": "un/unity/unity__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈjuːnəti/",
"audio": "un/unity/unity__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French unite, from Latin unitas, from unus ‘one’."
}