{
    "term": "surgeon",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a doctor who is trained to perform surgery (= medical operations that involve cutting open a person’s body)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **brain/heart surgeon**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Surgeons performed two operations on him yesterday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is determined to qualify as a surgeon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people are terrified at the thought of the surgeon's knife."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Surgeons removed her right leg above the knee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the surgeon who will operate on you"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare", "Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["distinguished", "eminent", "leading"],
                "verb + surgeon": ["be", "work as", "become"],
                "surgeon + verb": ["operate", "perform something", "insert something"],
                "phrases": ["the surgeon’s knife"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɜːdʒən/",
                "audio": "su/surgeon/surgeon__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɜːrdʒən/",
                "audio": "su/surgeon/surgeon__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French surgien, contraction of Old French serurgien, based on Latin chirurgia, from Greek kheirourgia ‘handiwork, surgery’, from kheir ‘hand’ + ergon ‘work’."
}