'Hospital' definitions:
Definition of 'hospital'
(from WordNet)
noun
A health facility where patients receive treatment [syn: hospital, infirmary]
noun
A medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
Definition of 'Hospital'
From: GCIDE
- Hospital \Hos"pi*tal\, n. [OF. hospital, ospital, F. h[^o]pital, 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. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hospital'
From: GCIDE
- Hospital \Hos"pi*tal\, a. [L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital.] Hospitable. [Obs.] --Howell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hospital'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asylum,
- base hospital,
- clinic,
- community hospital,
- convalescent home,
- convalescent hospital,
- dispensary,
- evacuation hospital,
- field hospital,
- general hospital,
- home,
- infirmary,
- inpatient clinic,
- maison de sante,
- mental hospital,
- nursing home,
- osteopathic hospital,
- outpatient clinic,
- policlinic,
- polyclinic,
- private hospital,
- proprietary hospital,
- public hospital,
- rest home,
- sanatorium,
- sanitarium,
- sick bay,
- sickbed,
- sickroom,
- special hospital,
- station hospital,
- surgical hospital,
- teaching hospital,
- VA hospital,
- veterans hospital,
- voluntary hospital,
- ward,
- well-baby clinic
Words containing 'Hospital'
- Hospitable,
- Hospitableness,
- Hospitably,
- Hospitalism,
- Hospitalities,
- Hospitality,
- Hospitalize,
- Hospitate,
- hospitalization,
- Foundling hospital,
- General hospitals,
- Hospital Sunday,
- Hospital ship,
- Lock hospital,
- field hospital,
- hospital apprentice,
- hospital attendant,
- hospital bed,
- hospital care,
- hospital chaplain,
- hospital fever,
- hospital occupancy,
- hospital room,
- hospital train,
- hospital ward,
- hospitalization insurance,
- maternity hospital,
- mental hospital,
- military hospital,
- psychiatric hospital,
- Mobile Army Surgical Hospital