hospital
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Noun (2)hospitals
- a health facility where patients receive treatmentSynonyms: infirmaryType of medical building, health facilityKinds mental hospital, creche, maternity hospital, military hospital, sanatorium, lazarettoParts ward, hospital room, clinic, burn center
- a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical careType of medical institutionParts intensive care unit, coronary care unit
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Translations
Noun large medical facility
- Spanish
- hospital
- French
- hôpital
- German
- Krankenhaus
- Italian
- ospedale
- Portuguese
- hospital
- Turkish
- hastane
- Russian
- больни́ца bolʹníca
- Arabic
- مُسْتَشْفًى mustašfan
- Chinese
- 医院 yīyuàn
- Japanese
- 病院 byōin
36 more languages
- Dutch
- ziekenhuis
- Polish
- szpital
- Swedish
- sjukhus
- Greek
- νοσοκομείο nosokomeío
- Korean
- 병원 byeong'won
- Indonesian
- rumah sakit
- Vietnamese
- bệnh viện
- Hungarian
- kórház
- Portuguese (PT)
- hospital
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 醫院 yīyuàn
- Albanian
- spital
- Breton
- klañvdi
- Catalan
- hospital
- Corsican
- spedale
- Czech
- nemocnice
- Danish
- hospital
- Esperanto
- malsanulejo
- Estonian
- haigla
- Finnish
- sairaala
- Georgian
- საავადმყოფო saavadmq̇opo
- Hebrew
- בֵּית חוֹלִים bet kholím
- Icelandic
- sjúkrahús
- Kurdish
- nexweşxane
- Latvian
- slimnīca
- Lithuanian
- ligoninė
- Malagasy
- hopitaly
- Norwegian
- sykehus
- Romanian
- spital
- Scottish Gaelic
- taigh-leighis
- Serbo-Croatian
- bolnica
- Slovak
- nemocnica
- Slovenian
- bolnišnica
- Swahili
- hospitali
- Walloon
- ospitå
- Welsh
- ysbyty
- Yiddish
- שפּיטאָל shpitol
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. hospital, ospital, F. hôpital, LL. hospitale (or perh. E. hospital is directly from the Late Latin), from L. hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr. hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, Spital.
1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. obsolete Edmund Spenser
2. 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.
Hospital ship, a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital. — Hospital Sunday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.
Origin: L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital.
Hospitable. obsolete James Howell
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54