word-vault/dist/data/cards/su/survivor.json

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{
    "term": "survivor",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who continues to live, especially despite being nearly killed or experiencing great danger or difficulty",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **sole/only survivor** of the massacre"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane crashed in an area of dense jungle. There were no survivors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are only a few survivors from the original team *(= members who remain in it while others have been replaced)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She'll cope. She's one of life's great survivors *(= somebody who deals very well with difficult situations)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A movie has been made about the last remaining survivor of the tribe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bomb blast left no survivors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The emergency services searched all night for crash survivors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The navy helped pick up the survivors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a survivor from the Titanic"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the recovery process for breast cancer survivors"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is wrestling with survivor guilt (= feeling guilty that she survived when other people did not)."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["the last", "the only", "a rare"],
                "verb + survivor": ["be", "find", "pick up"],
                "survivor + noun": ["guilt"],
                "preposition": ["survivor from"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈvaɪvə(r)/",
                "audio": "su/survivor/survivor__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sərˈvaɪvər/",
                "audio": "su/survivor/survivor__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}