hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/
ipa: /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/
Forms: form: hospitals
form: hospitale
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
text: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
text: This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
ref: 2010, Sameer P. Sarkar, “Mental health law and the mentally disordered offender”, in Annie Bartlett, Gill McGauley, editors, Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Law), page 265:
glosses: A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
examples: text: The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
glosses: A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
examples: text: […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A place of lodging.
Synonyms: sickhouse
Hyponyms: english: small hospitals
translation: small hospitals
word: clinic
topics: military
war
government
politics
english: mobile
translation: mobile
word: field hospital
word: asylum
english: mental health
translation: mental health
word: institution
word: leprosarium
word: leprosery
english: leprosy
translation: leprosy
word: lazar house
word: lazaret
english: port quarantine
translation: port quarantine
word: lazaretto
Coordinate terms: word: infirmary
english: rooms within a larger institution such as a school
translation: rooms within a larger institution such as a school
word: nurse's office
word: surgery
english: separate medical practices
translation: separate medical practices
word: doctor's office
Derived terms: antihospital
children's hospital
cottage hospital
field hospital
general hospital
hospicentric
hospital bed
hospital corner
hospital corpsman
hospital fever
hospital gangrene
hospital gown
hospitalise
hospitalism
hospitalist
hospitalization
hospitalize
hospitaller
hospitalman
hospital order
hospital pass
hospital pharmacy
Hospital Row
hospital ship
hospital soap
hospital sock
in hospital
in-hospital
interhospital
in the hospital
intrahospital
lock hospital
maternity hospital
mental hospital
military hospital
multihospital
nonhospital
posthospital
prehospital
psych hospital
psychiatric hospital
put someone in hospital
superhospital
teaching hospital
veterinary hospital
Related terms: hospice
hospitable
hospitality
host