{
    "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’."
}