See more synonyms for hospital on Thesaurus.comnoun
- an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- a similar establishment for the care of animals.
- a repair shop for specific portable objects: violin hospital; doll hospital.
- British. an institution supported by charity or taxes for the care of the needy, as an orphanage or old people’s home.
Origin of hospital
1250–1300; Middle English hospitale
Medieval Latin, noun use of neuter of
Latin hospitālis
hospitable, equivalent to
hospit-
(see
) +
-ālis -al1Related formsmin·i·hos·pi·tal, nounmul·ti·hos·pi·tal, adjectivepost·hos·pi·tal, adjective
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Examples from the Web for hospital
Contemporary Examples of hospital
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When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.
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By the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.
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“The Center was actually able to get me into the hospital and get me the new medications that were available,” Thom said.
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Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.
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Both Mayor De Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton rushed to the hospital.
Historical Examples of hospital
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They looked from the windows of the hospital, and from the roofs of houses.
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If only the house was her own, that she might turn it into a hospital!
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She could not bring herself at first to tell him about the hospital.
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Closer to her than the hospital was life in the raw that night.
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He had seen her before in the hospital, but he had never really noticed how attractive she was.
British Dictionary definitions for hospital
hospital
noun
- an institution for the medical, surgical, obstetric, or psychiatric care and treatment of patients
- (modifier) having the function of a hospitala hospital ship
- a repair shop for something specifieda dolls’ hospital
- archaic a charitable home, hospice, or school
Word Origin for hospital
C13: from Medieval Latin hospitāle hospice, from Latin hospitālis relating to a guest, from hospes, hospit- guest, host 1
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Word Origin and History for hospitaln.
mid-13c., “shelter for the needy,” from Old French hospital, ospital “hostel” (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitale “guest-house, inn,” neuter of Latin adjective hospitalis “of a guest or host,” from hospes (genitive hospitis); see host (n.1). Later “charitable institution to house and maintain the needy” (early 15c.); sense of “institution for sick people” is first recorded 1540s.
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hospital in Medicine
hospital
[hŏs′pĭ-tl]n.
- An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.
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