{
  "oeuvre":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer":[
        "a catalogue of Rembrandt's oeuvre",
        "scrupulously examines Dickens' oeuvre in order to demonstrate how his convictions helped to determine the shape of his novels",
        "\u2014 G. J. Worth"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0259-",
      "\u02c8\u0153-",
      "\u02c8u\u0307-vr\u0259",
      "\u02c8\u0259r-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "corpus"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a novel that occupies a relatively minor position in the author's oeuvre",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His frenemy Pablo Picasso suggested that going back to the same subjects and ideas over and over again made for a rather monotonous oeuvre . \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 15 June 2022",
      "Critics, by and large, thought this was a solid addition to the Ferrell oeuvre . \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Cin\u00e9t\u00e9v\u00e9 also brought on Haneke\u2019s traditional producer Les Films du Losange as a co-production partner, offering the project in depth access to his oeuvre . \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 16 Jan. 2022",
      "In its understated way, this can be read as the apogee of the bildungsroman traced by Gunn\u2019s poetic oeuvre , as the moment the occluded requires no agency to declare itself, and the closet is revealed without shame or obfuscation. \u2014 Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
      "There\u2019s no better introduction to Federico Fellini\u2019s oeuvre than this exuberant masterpiece. \u2014 Radhika Seth, Vogue , 12 May 2022",
      "Catlett\u2019s oeuvre often depicts the strength of women, Conwill says. \u2014 Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "This oeuvre , in its entirety, not only chronicles a nation in rapid transformation during and after the Civil War. \u2014 Randall Fuller, WSJ , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Returning to different parts of Sontag\u2019s oeuvre as her own life evolves, Abraham sees Sontag as an enduring mentor figure. \u2014 Design Art B., Longreads , 7 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French, literally, \"work,\" going back to Old French ovre, going back to Latin opera \"activity, effort, attention, work,\" collective derivative from oper-, opus \"work, effort, product of labor\" \u2014 more at opus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1889, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023735"
  },
  "Oedipus complex":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the positive libidinal feelings of a child toward the parent of the opposite sex and hostile or jealous feelings toward the parent of the same sex that in Freudian psychoanalytic theory may be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1910, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144423"
  }
}