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{
"term": "hospital",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a large building where people who are ill or injured are given medical treatment and care",
"sensetop": "to/into (the) hospitalin (the) hospitalin a hospitalout of (the) hospitalat a hospital",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)British EnglishNorth American English",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He had to **go to/into hospital** for treatment.",
"contextForm": "to/into (the) hospital"
},
{
"text": "He had to **go to/into the hospital** for treatment."
},
{
"text": "I'm going to the hospital to visit my brother."
},
{
"text": "to **be admitted to/into (the) hospital**"
},
{
"text": "Arrangements have been made for his admission to (the) hospital."
},
{
"text": "He's **been taken to (the) hospital** for tests."
},
{
"text": "The injured **were rushed to (the) hospital** in an ambulance."
},
{
"text": "to **leave (the) hospital**"
},
{
"text": "to **be discharged/released from (the) hospital**"
},
{
"text": "to **visit a hospital**"
},
{
"text": "He **died in hospital**.",
"contextForm": "in (the) hospital"
},
{
"text": "He was treated in the hospital for burns."
},
{
"text": "I spent four days in hospital."
},
{
"text": "I was in the hospital for four days."
},
{
"text": "She works in a hospital in New York.",
"contextForm": "in a hospital"
},
{
"text": "She came out of the hospital this morning.",
"contextForm": "out of (the) hospital"
},
{
"text": "Doctors at the hospital decided to keep her in overnight.",
"contextForm": "at a hospital"
},
{
"text": "a **private/local hospital**"
},
{
"text": "a **psychiatric/maternity hospital**"
},
{
"text": "a children's hospital"
},
{
"text": "The procedure requires a two-to-three-night **hospital stay**."
},
{
"text": "There is an urgent need for more **hospital beds**."
},
{
"text": "**hospital admissions**"
},
{
"text": "**hospital staff**"
},
{
"text": "a hospital ward/room"
},
{
"text": "hospital treatment/care"
},
{
"text": "He has been readmitted to hospital."
},
{
"text": "He is in hospital recovering from a heart operation."
},
{
"text": "He was taken to hospital as a precaution."
},
{
"text": "He's had to go into hospital rather suddenly."
},
{
"text": "How long will I have to stay in hospital?"
},
{
"text": "I used to work as a cleaner in a hospital."
},
{
"text": "She works at the John Radcliffe Hospital."
},
{
"text": "We went to the hospital to visit my gran."
},
{
"text": "He was admitted to hospital complaining of chest pains."
},
{
"text": "She was discharged from hospital and allowed to go home."
},
{
"text": "There is a shortage of hospital beds."
}
],
"topics": ["Buildings", "Healthcare"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["community", "district", "local"],
"verb + hospital": ["go into", "go to", "rush somebody to"],
"hospital + noun": ["administrator", "doctor", "staff"],
"preposition": [
"at a/the hospital",
"in (a/the) hospital",
"to (a/the) hospital"
],
"phrases": [
"admission to hospital",
"admission to the hospital",
"a stay in hospital"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɒspɪtl/",
"audio": "ho/hospital/hospital__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɑːspɪtl/",
"audio": "ho/hospital/hospital__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally meaning a hospice run by the Knights Hospitallers in the 11th century): via Old French from medieval Latin hospitale, neuter of Latin hospitalis ‘hospitable’, from hospes, hospit- ‘host, guest’."
}