hospital

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/]

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1. hospital (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.

Example: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.

2. hospital (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.

Example: The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.

3. hospital (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A place of lodging.

Example: […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]

4. hospital (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Hospitable.

Example: 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.

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