{
    "term": "ambulance",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a vehicle with special equipment, used for taking sick or injured people to a hospital",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**Call an ambulance**!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **ambulance service**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **ambulance crew** rushed her to the hospital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't worry—the ambulance is on its way."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was put into an ambulance and taken away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He went in the ambulance with his father."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry", "Healthcare"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["air", "field", "land"],
                "verb + ambulance": ["call (for)", "get", "phone (for)"],
                "ambulance + verb": ["be on its way", "arrive", "come"],
                "ambulance + noun": ["service", "crew", "personnel"],
                "preposition": ["by ambulance", "in an/​the ambulance"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæmbjələns/",
                "audio": "am/ambulance/ambulance__gb_5.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈæmbjələns/",
                "audio": "am/ambulance/ambulance__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: French, from hôpital ambulant ‘mobile (horse-drawn) field hospital’, from Latin ambulant- ‘walking’, from ambulare."
}