hospital
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hospital (plural hospitals)
- A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (UK)
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (US)
- A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
- (obsolete) A place of lodging.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto IX:
- {...}} they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht {{...}
- French: hôpital
- German: Krankenhaus, Spital (regional or dated)
- Italian: ospedale
- Portuguese: hospital
- Russian: больни́ца
- Spanish: hospital
hospital
- (obsolete) Hospitable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗: - |||tr=|brackets=|subst=|lit=|nocat=1|footer=}}|}}
- At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.
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