Hospital

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A facility that provides emergency, inpatient, and usually outpatient medical care for sick or injured people.
  • noun. A facility that provides veterinary care for sick or injured animals.
  • noun. A charitable institution, such as an orphanage or a home for the elderly.
  • noun. A repair shop for specified items.
  • noun. A hospice for travelers or pilgrims.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The tennis now extended to include establishments for the care and cure of sick or injured animals, such as horses, dogs, cats, etc.
  • To receive and care for in a hospital.
  • Hospitable.
  • noun. A place of shelter or entertainment; an inn.
  • noun. An institution or establishment for dispensing hospitality or caring for the needy; an asylum for shelter or maintenance.
  • noun. Now, specifically, an establishment or institution for the care of the sick or wounded, or of such as require medical or surgical treatment.
  • noun. In the navy, the designation formerly given to the apothecary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
  • noun. A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
  • noun. a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital.
  • noun. a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.
  • adjective. Hospitable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
  • noun. A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  • noun. A place of lodging.
  • noun. The place and state of being hospitalized.
  • adjective. hospitable
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a health facility where patients receive treatment
  • noun. a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
  • Word Usage
    "It is often met with in those who are much exposed to air contaminated with organisms -- for example, patients who have been long in hospital, or the resident staff of hospitals (_septic_ or _hospital throat_), and particularly in persons of a "rheumatic" tendency."
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