Sekirov Dictionary

hospital

UK /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/US /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun3

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a large building where doctors and nurses treat people who are very sick or badly hurt
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
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(no longer used) A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
- The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
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(no longer used) A place of lodging.
- […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […] — 1590

adjective1

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(no longer used) Hospitable.
- 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. — 1749

forms

hospitals · more hospital · most hospital

Phrases with hospital

in the hospital
Admitted as a patient in a hospital.

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