adj
Meaning 1
Hospitable.
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Usage: obsolete
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adj
Hospitable.
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Usage: obsolete
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name
A surname.
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noun
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A place of lodging.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
a health facility where patients receive treatment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: infirmary
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Broader terms: medical building, health facility, healthcare facility
Narrower terms: creche, foundling hospital, lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse, maternity hospital, mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum, military hospital, sanatorium, sanatarium, sanitarium
noun
a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
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Broader terms: medical institution
History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Latin hospitālis Late Latin hospitālebor. Old French hospitalbor. Middle English hospital English hospital From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
Across languages
333 source translations are retained for this English entry.