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adj
More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that is shared by two patients in contradistinction to a ward containing many patients.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adjective satellite
confined to a small number of hospital patients
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English private English semiprivate From semi- + private.
