About The Word Hospital
Learn about the word Hospital to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Hospital definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Hospital
| Hospital Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Hospital?
[n] a health facility where patients receive treatment
[n] a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care Synonyms | Synonyms for Hospital: infirmary Related Terms | Find terms related to Hospital: 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 See Also | asylum | burn center | clinic | coronary care unit | creche | foundling hospital | health facility | hospital room | hospital ward | ICU | insane asylum | institution | intensive care unit | lazar house | lazaret | lazarette | lazaretto | medical building | medical institution | mental home | mental hospital | mental institution | military hospital | pesthouse | psychiatric hospital | sanatarium | sanatorium | sanitarium | ward Hospital In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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.
\Hos"pi*tal\, a. [L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital.] Hospitable. [Obs.] --Howell. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
- Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
- Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
- Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
- Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
- Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
- Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
- Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
- Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
- Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…