Hospital Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Related terms
    • 1.3.2 Translations
• 2 Danish
  • 2.1 Noun
    • 2.1.1 Synonyms
    • 2.1.2 Inflection
• 3 French
  • 3.1 Noun
• 4 Spanish
  • 4.1 Noun
    • 4.1.1 See also
• 5 Swedish
  • 5.1 Noun

English

Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital) < Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”) < hospes (“host, guest”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

1. A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
2. 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.
3. (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 [...].

Related terms

• hospitable
• hospitality

Danish

Noun

hospital n. (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

1. hospital

Synonyms

• sygehus n.

Inflection

French

Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitaux)

1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

Spanish

Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitales)

1. hospital

See also

• clínica

Swedish

Noun

hospital n.

1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

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See Also:

• Crownsville Hospital Center