Standard Lemma guide

hospital

adj · name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Received-Pronunciation, obsolete: /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
  • General-American: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/
  • General-American: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 S P IH2 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Hospitable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
  • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A place of lodging.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a health facility where patients receive treatment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: infirmary

Antonyms: none provided

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

7

noun

Meaning 7

a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medical institution

History

Etymology

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

Translations

333 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Marshallese: aujpitōļ — relational to hospitals
  • Spanish: hospitalario — relational to hospitals
  • Spanish: nosocomial — relational to hospitals
  • Abkhaz: ахәшәтәырҭа (axwŝwtwʼərta) — large medical facility
  • Afrikaans: hospitaal — large medical facility
  • Albanian: spital — large medical facility
  • Southern Altai: эмчилик (emčilik) — large medical facility
  • Amharic: ሐኪም ቤት (ḥäkim bet) — large medical facility
  • Amharic: ሆስፒታል (hospital) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى (mustašfan) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: مَارِسْتَان (māristān) — large medical facility
  • Chadian Arabic: لبتان (labtān) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: مستشفة (mustašfa) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: قشلة — large medical facility
  • Arabic: مُسْتَشْفى (mustašfa) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: سبيطار (sbīṭār) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: خستخانة — large medical facility
  • Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى (mustašfa) — large medical facility
  • Arabic: إسبيطَار — large medical facility
  • Arabic: سْبِيتَار — large medical facility
  • Aragonese: espital — large medical facility
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܟܪ̈ܝܼܗܹܐ (bēt krīhe) — large medical facility
  • Armenian: հիվանդանոց (hivandanocʻ) — large medical facility
  • Assamese: হস্পিতাল (hospital) — large medical facility
  • Asturian: hospital — large medical facility
  • Azerbaijani: xəstəxana — large medical facility
  • Azerbaijani: hospital — large medical facility
  • Baluchi: اسپتال (ispatāl) — large medical facility
  • Bashkir: дауахана (dawaxana) — large medical facility
  • Bashkir: хәстәхана (xəstəxana) — large medical facility
  • Basque: ospitale — large medical facility
  • Basque: erietxe — large medical facility
  • Belarusian: бальні́ца (balʹníca) — large medical facility
  • Belarusian: бо́льніца (bólʹnica) — large medical facility
  • Belarusian: шпіта́ль (špitálʹ) — large medical facility
  • Belarusian: ляка́рня (ljakárnja) — large medical facility
  • Bengali: হাসপাতাল (haśpatal) — large medical facility
  • Bole: azibiti — large medical facility
  • Bulgarian: бо́лница (bólnica) — large medical facility
  • Burmese: ဆေးရုံ (hce:rum) — large medical facility
  • Buryat: эмнэлгэ (emnelge) — large medical facility
  • Carpathian Rusyn: бо́лниця (bólnycja) — large medical facility
  • Carpathian Rusyn: шпіта́ль (špitálʹ) — large medical facility
  • Carpathian Rusyn: шпіта́льня (špitálʹnja) — large medical facility
  • Catalan: hospital — large medical facility
  • Chechen: больница (boljnica) — large medical facility
  • Cherokee: ᏧᏂᏢᎩᎢ (tsunitlvgii) — large medical facility
  • Cheyenne: naa'émâhéó'o — large medical facility
  • Chichewa: chipatala — large medical facility
  • Chinese Cantonese: 醫院 /医院 — large medical facility
  • Chinese: бинйүан (binyüan) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 醫院 /医院 (ĭ-iêng) — large medical facility
  • Hakka Chinese: 病院 (phiang-yen, piô-yín, phiang-yan) — large medical facility
  • Chinese: 病院 (pēn-īn, pīn-īn, pēn-ìn, pīn-ìn, pǐn-ǐn) — large medical facility
  • Chinese Mandarin: 醫院 /医院 (yīyuàn) — large medical facility
  • Wu Chinese: 醫院 /医院 — large medical facility
  • Choctaw: abeka aiasha — large medical facility
  • Chuvash: пульница (pulʹnitsa) — large medical facility
  • Cornish: klavji — large medical facility
  • Cornish: kloa'ji — large medical facility
  • Crimean Tatar: hastahane — large medical facility
  • Crimean Tatar: şifahane — large medical facility
  • Czech: nemocnice — large medical facility
  • Czech: špitál — large medical facility
  • Danish: hospital — large medical facility
  • Danish: sygehus — large medical facility
  • Dhivehi: އަސްފަތާލު (asfatālu) — large medical facility
  • Dhivehi: ހޮސްޕިޓަލު (hospiṭalu) — large medical facility
  • Central Dusun: lamin pongusapan — large medical facility
  • Dutch: ziekenhuis — large medical facility
  • Dutch: hospitaal — large medical facility
  • Dutch: gasthuis — large medical facility
  • Dutch: kliniek — large medical facility
  • Dutch: ziekenhuizen — large medical facility
  • Dutch: hospitalen — large medical facility
  • Dutch: gasthuizen — large medical facility
  • Dutch: klinieken — large medical facility
  • Dzongkha: སྨན་ཁང (sman khang) — large medical facility
  • Erzya: пичкомакудо (pičkomakudo) — large medical facility
  • Erzya: ормакудо (ormakudo) — large medical facility
  • Esperanto: malsanulejo — large medical facility
  • Esperanto: hospitalo — large medical facility
  • Estonian: haigla — large medical facility
  • Ewe: atikewɔƒe — large medical facility
  • Ewe: kɔdzi — large medical facility
  • Faroese: sjúkrahús — large medical facility
  • Faroese: vælgerðarstovnur — large medical facility
  • Fiji Hindi: aspataal — large medical facility
  • Finnish: sairaala — large medical facility
  • Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl — large medical facility
  • French: hôpital — large medical facility
  • Friulian: ospedâl — large medical facility
  • Fula: 𞤧𞤢𞤬𞤪𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤵 — large medical facility
  • Fula: safrirdu — large medical facility
  • Galician: hospital — large medical facility
  • Georgian: საავადმყოფო (saavadmq̇opo) — large medical facility
  • Georgian: ჰოსპიტალი (hosṗiṭali) — large medical facility
  • German: Krankenhaus — large medical facility
  • German: Spital — large medical facility
  • German: Spital — large medical facility
  • Greek: νοσοκομείο (nosokomeío) — large medical facility
  • Ancient Greek: ὑγιαστήριον (hugiastḗrion) — large medical facility
  • Ancient Greek: νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon) — large medical facility
  • Greenlandic: napparsimmavik — large medical facility
  • Paraguayan Guarani: tasyo — large medical facility
  • Gujarati: રુગ્ણાલય (rugṇālya) — large medical facility
  • Gujarati: ઈસ્પિતાલ (īspitāl) — large medical facility
  • Haitian Creole: lopital — large medical facility
  • Hausa: asibiti — large medical facility
  • Hawaiian: hale maʻi — large medical facility
  • Hawaiian: haukapila — large medical facility
  • Hebrew: בֵּית חוֹלִים (bet kholím) — large medical facility
  • Hiligaynon: ospital — large medical facility
  • Hiligaynon: klinika — large medical facility
  • Hiligaynon: bululngan — large medical facility
  • Hindi: अस्पताल (aspatāl) — large medical facility
  • Hindi: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālay) — large medical facility
  • Hindi: शफाखाना (śaphākhānā) — large medical facility
  • Hindi: शफ़ाख़ाना (śafāxānā) — large medical facility
  • Hindi: शिफ़ाख़ाना (śifāxānā) — large medical facility
  • Hungarian: kórház — large medical facility
  • Hunsrik: Krankehaus — large medical facility
  • Icelandic: sjúkrahús — large medical facility
  • Icelandic: spítali — large medical facility
  • Indonesian: rumah sakit — large medical facility
  • Ingrian: bolnitsa — large medical facility
  • Interlingua: hospital — large medical facility
  • Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ (aanniafik) — large medical facility
  • Irish: ospidéal — large medical facility
  • Istriot: uspadal — large medical facility
  • Italian: ospedale — large medical facility
  • Japanese: 病院 (byōin) — large medical facility
  • Japanese: 医院 (iin) — large medical facility
  • Jarai: sang ia jrao — large medical facility
  • Javanese: omah sakit — large medical facility
  • Javanese: griya sakit — large medical facility
  • Jeju: 벵완 (beng'wan) — large medical facility
  • Kabuverdianu: ospital — large medical facility
  • Kanakanabu: tapasavuana — large medical facility
  • Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (āspatre) — large medical facility
  • Kapampangan: uspital — large medical facility
  • Kapampangan: pipamanuluan — large medical facility
  • Kazakh: аурухана (auruxana) — large medical facility
  • Khmer: មន្ទីរពេទ្យ (mŭəntii pɛɛt) — large medical facility
  • Khmer: មន្ទីរព្យាបាលរោគ (mŭəntii pyiəbaal rook) — large medical facility
  • Korean: 병원 (byeong'won) — large medical facility
  • Korean: 의원 (uiwon) — large medical facility
  • Central Kurdish: نەخۆشخانە (nexoşxane) — large medical facility
  • Central Kurdish: خەستەخانە (xestexane) — large medical facility
  • Northern Kurdish: nexweşxane — large medical facility
  • Northern Kurdish: xestexane — large medical facility
  • Northern Kurdish: bîmaristan — large medical facility
  • Kyrgyz: оорукана (oorukana) — large medical facility
  • Lao: ໂຮງຫມໍ (hōng mǭ) — large medical facility
  • Lao: ໂຮງພະຢາບານ (hōng pha yā bān) — large medical facility
  • Latin: nosocomīum — large medical facility
  • Latin: valētūdinārium — large medical facility
  • Latin: infirmaria — large medical facility
  • Latvian: slimnīca — large medical facility
  • Lingala: ndáko ya bokɔnɔ — large medical facility
  • Lingala: lopitálo — large medical facility
  • Lithuanian: ligoninė — large medical facility
  • Lombard: ospedal — large medical facility
  • Luhya: osipito — large medical facility
  • Luo: osuptal — large medical facility
  • Luxembourgish: Spidol — large medical facility
  • Luxembourgish: Klinick — large medical facility
  • Luxembourgish: Klinik — large medical facility
  • Macedonian: бо́лница (bólnica) — large medical facility
  • Malagasy: hopitaly — large medical facility
  • Malay: hospital — large medical facility
  • Malay: sepital — large medical facility
  • Malay: rumah sakit — large medical facility
  • Malayalam: ആശുപത്രി (āśupatri) — large medical facility
  • Maltese: sptar — large medical facility
  • Manx: spittal — large medical facility
  • Manx: thie lheihys — large medical facility
  • Marathi: रुग्णालय (rugṇālay) — large medical facility
  • Marathi: इस्पितळ (ispitaḷ) — large medical facility
  • Marathi: हॉस्पिटल (hŏspiṭal) — large medical facility
  • Marathi: दवाखाना (davākhānā) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: больнице (boĺńice) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: госпиталь (gospitaĺ) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: лечебнице (ĺečebńice) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: стационар (stacionar) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: эмер (emer) — large medical facility
  • Eastern Mari: эмлымвер (emlymver) — large medical facility
  • Marshallese: aujpitōļ — large medical facility
  • Mauritian Creole: lopital — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: эмнэлэг (emneleg) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: эмнэлэг хороо (emneleg xoroo) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: госпиталь (gospitalʹ) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: больниц (bolʹnic) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠨᠡᠯᠭᠡ (emnelge) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠨᠡᠯᠭᠡ ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (emnelge qoriy-a) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: ᠾᠣᠰᠫᠢᠲ᠋ᠠᠯᠢ (hospitali) — large medical facility
  • Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠯᠢᠨᠢᠼᠠ (bolinica) — large medical facility
  • Khiamniungan Naga: mūolījàm — large medical facility
  • Navajo: azeeʼálʼį́ — large medical facility
  • Northern Ndebele: isibhedlela — large medical facility
  • Nepali: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālaya) — large medical facility
  • Nepali: अस्पताल (aspatāl) — large medical facility
  • Newar: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālaya) — large medical facility
  • Ngamo: janar — large medical facility
  • Niuean: fale gagao — large medical facility
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sykehus — large medical facility
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sjukehus — large medical facility
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sjukehus — large medical facility
  • Occitan: espital — large medical facility
  • Occitan: espitau — large medical facility
  • Odia: ଡାକ୍ତରଖାନା (ḍāktarakhānā) — large medical facility
  • Old English: lǣċehūs — large medical facility
  • Ossetian: рынчындон (rynḱyndon) — large medical facility
  • Pannonian Rusyn: шпиталь (špitalʹ) — large medical facility
  • Pannonian Rusyn: больнїца (bolʹnjica) — large medical facility
  • Papiamentu: hòspital — large medical facility
  • Pashto: روغتون (roǧtun) — large medical facility
  • Pashto: شفاخانه (šafāxāna) — large medical facility
  • Pashto: هاسپيټل (hāspiṭal) — large medical facility
  • Pashto: هسپټال (haspaṭāl) — large medical facility
  • Dari: شَفَاخَانَه (šafāxāna) — large medical facility
  • Iranian Persian: بیمارِسْتان (bimârestân) — large medical facility
  • Iranian Persian: بیمارْخانِه (bimârxâne) — large medical facility
  • Iranian Persian: شَفاخانِه (šafâxâne) — large medical facility
  • Iranian Persian: مَریضْخانِه (marizxâne) — large medical facility
  • Pitjantjatjara: atjupitila — large medical facility
  • Plautdietsch: Hospitol — large medical facility
  • Polish: szpital — large medical facility
  • Portuguese: hospital — large medical facility
  • Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (haspatāl) — large medical facility
  • Quechua: unquna wasi — large medical facility
  • Quechua: jampina wasi — large medical facility
  • Réunion Creole French: lopital — large medical facility
  • Romanian: spital — large medical facility
  • Russian: больни́ца (bolʹníca) — large medical facility
  • Russian: го́спиталь (góspitalʹ) — large medical facility
  • Russian: кли́ника (klínika) — large medical facility
  • Russian: лече́бница (lečébnica) — large medical facility
  • Northern Sami: buohcceviessu — large medical facility
  • Northern Sami: buhcciidviessu — large medical facility
  • Samoan: falema'i — large medical facility
  • Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālaya) — large medical facility
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis — large medical facility
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-eiridinn — large medical facility
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh-tinnis — large medical facility
  • Scottish Gaelic: ospadal — large medical facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: бо́лница — large medical facility
  • Serbo-Croatian: bólnica — large medical facility
  • Shona: chipatara — large medical facility
  • Sicilian: spitali — large medical facility
  • Sindhi: اسپتال (ispatāl) — large medical facility
  • Sinhalese: ආරෝග්යශාලා (ārōgyaśālā) — large medical facility
  • Sinhalese: රෝහල් (rōhal) — large medical facility
  • Slovak: nemocnica — large medical facility
  • Slovene: bolnišnica — large medical facility
  • Slovene: bolnica — large medical facility
  • Somali: isbitaal — large medical facility
  • Lower Sorbian: chórownja — large medical facility
  • Upper Sorbian: chorownja — large medical facility
  • Sotho: sepetlele — large medical facility
  • Spanish: hospital — large medical facility
  • Spanish: nosocomio — large medical facility
  • Swahili: hospitali — large medical facility
  • Swazi: esibhedlela — large medical facility
  • Swedish: sjukhus — large medical facility
  • Swedish: lasarett — large medical facility
  • Tagalog: ospital — large medical facility
  • Tagalog: pagamutan — large medical facility
  • Tahitian: fare maʻi — large medical facility
  • Tajik: бемористон (bemoriston) — large medical facility
  • Tajik: касалхона (kasalxona) — large medical facility
  • Tajik: беморхона (bemorxona) — large medical facility
  • Tajik: маризхона (marizxona) — large medical facility
  • Tajik: шифохона (šifoxona) — large medical facility
  • Tamil: மருத்துவமனை (maruttuvamaṉai) — large medical facility
  • Tamil: ஆஸ்பத்திரி (āspattiri) — large medical facility
  • Tatar: хастаханә (xastaxanä) — large medical facility
  • Tatar: шифаханә (şifaxanä) — large medical facility
  • Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (āsupatri) — large medical facility
  • Telugu: వైద్యశాల (vaidyaśāla) — large medical facility
  • Telugu: దవాఖానా (davākhānā) — large medical facility
  • Telugu: చికిత్సాశాల (cikitsāśāla) — large medical facility
  • Telugu: చికిత్సాలయము (cikitsālayamu) — large medical facility
  • Tetum: ospitál — large medical facility
  • Tetum: uma-moras — large medical facility
  • Thai: โรงพยาบาล (roong-pá-yaa-baan) — large medical facility
  • Tibetan: སྨན་ཁང (sman khang) — large medical facility
  • Tigrinya: ሆስፒታል (hospital) — large medical facility
  • Tigrinya: ቤት ሕክምና (bet ḥəkməna) — large medical facility
  • Tok Pisin: haus sik — large medical facility
  • Tokelauan: falemai — large medical facility
  • Tongan: fale mahaki — large medical facility
  • Tumbuka: chipatala — large medical facility
  • Turkish: hastane — large medical facility
  • Turkish: emlerge — large medical facility
  • Turkish: sayrılarevi — large medical facility
  • Ottoman Turkish: خستهخانه (hastahane) — large medical facility
  • Turkmen: keselhana — large medical facility
  • Turkmen: gospital — large medical facility
  • Turkmen: кеселхана — large medical facility
  • Turkmen: госпитал — large medical facility
  • Ukrainian: ліка́рня (likárnja) — large medical facility
  • Ukrainian: шпита́ль (špytálʹ) — large medical facility
  • Ukrainian: го́спіталь (hóspitalʹ) — large medical facility
  • Ukrainian: болни́ця (bolnýcja) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: ہَسْپَتال (haspatāl) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: شِفا خانَہ (śifā xāna) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: اَسْپَتال (aspatāl) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: دارُ الشِّفا (dāru ś-śifā) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: بِیمارِسْتان (bīmāristān) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: مُسْتَشْفیٰ (mustaśfā) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: بِیمار خانَہ (bīmār xāna) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: مَرِیض خانَہ (marīz xāna) — large medical facility
  • Urdu: صِحَت خانَہ (sihat xāna) — large medical facility
  • Uyghur: دوختورخانا (doxtorxana) — large medical facility
  • Uyghur: دوختۇرخانا (doxturxana) — large medical facility
  • Uyghur: شىپاخانا (shipaxana) — large medical facility
  • Uyghur: بالنىتسا (balnitsa) — large medical facility
  • Uzbek: kasalxona — large medical facility
  • Uzbek: shifoxona — large medical facility
  • Venetan: ospedal — large medical facility
  • Venetan: ospeal — large medical facility
  • Vietnamese: bệnh viện — large medical facility
  • Vietnamese: nhà thương — large medical facility
  • Vietnamese: y viện — large medical facility
  • Volapük: malädanöp — large medical facility
  • Warray: baláy-tambalan — large medical facility
  • Welsh: ysbyty — large medical facility
  • Xhosa: esibhedlele — large medical facility
  • Yiddish: שפּיטאָל (shpitol) — large medical facility
  • Yoruba: ilé-ìwòsàn — large medical facility
  • Zhuang: yihyen — large medical facility
  • Zulu: isibhedlela — large medical facility
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