hospital
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Late Latin hospitālisbor. 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”).
- derived from hospitālis
- derived from hospitālis
- derived from hospital
- inherited from hospital
Definitions
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill…
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
- 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.
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.
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 […]
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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.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymsickhouse
- neighborhospice
- neighborhospitable
- neighborhospitality
- neighborhospitaller
- neighborhost
- neighborclinic
- neighborfield hospital
- neighborasylum
- neighborinstitution
- neighborleprosarium
- neighborleprosery
- neighborlazar house
Derived
antihospital, base hospital, children's hospital, cottage hospital, field hospital, general hospital, hospicentric, hospital bag, hospital bed, hospital corner, hospital corpsman, hospital fever, hospital gangrene, hospital gown, hospitalise, hospitalism, hospitalist, hospitalization, hospitalize, 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 · +6 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hospital. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hospital. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at hospital
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA