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Webster 1913 Edition
Hospital
Hos′pi-tal
,Noun.
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
,Adj.
[L.
hospitalis
: cf. OF. hospital
.] Hospitable.
[Obs.]
Howell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hospital
HOS'PITAL
,Noun.
1.
A building appropriated for the reception of sick,infirm and helpless paupers,who are supported and nursed by charity; also, a house for the reception of insane persons, whether paupers or not, or for seamen, soldiers, foundlings, &c. who are supported by the public, or by private charity, or for infected persons, &c.2.
A place for shelter or entertainment.HOS'PITAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
Hospital
hospital
hospital
English
A room in a hospital.
Noun
hospital (plural hospitals)
- A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (UK)
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (US)
- A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
- (obsolete) A place of lodging.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
- they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
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Translations
building
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Adjective
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
- (obsolete) Hospitable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Danish
Etymology
From Latin hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)
Synonyms
- sygehus n
Inflection
Inflection of hospital
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospitaler | hospitalerne |
| genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitalers | hospitalernes |
External links
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Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hos.piˈtal/
Adjective
hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)
Malay
Etymology
Borrowing from English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔspital/
- Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al
Noun
hospital (plural hospital-hospital)
- hospital (building)
Synonyms
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitaulx)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
- French: hôpital
Old French
Etymology
From Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”)
Noun
hospital m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
Adjective
hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)
Declension
Declension of hospital
| Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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| Singular | Subject | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitale | hospital |
| Oblique | hospital | hospitale | hospital | |
| Plural | Subject | hospital | hospitales | hospital |
| Oblique | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitales | hospital |
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, from Latin hospitālis.
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitais)
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hospitale.
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitales)
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Swedish
Noun
hospital n
- (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
Declension
| Inflection of hospital | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospital | hospitalen |
| Genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitals | hospitalens |