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pɪ noun
1.
an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
2.
a similar establishment for the care of animals.
3.
a repair shop for specific portable objects: violin hospital; doll hospital.
4.
British. an institution supported by charity or taxes for the care of the needy, as an orphanage or old people's home.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| 1. | an institution for the medical, surgical, obstetric, or psychiatric care and treatment of patients |
| 2. | (modifier) having the function of a hospital: a hospital ship |
| 3. | a repair shop for something specified: a dolls' hospital |
| 4. | archaic a charitable home, hospice, or school |
| [C13: from Medieval Latin hospitāle hospice, from Latin hospitālis relating to a guest, from hospes, hospit- guest, | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
hospital
1242, "shelter for the needy," from O.Fr. hospital "hostel," from L.L. hospitale "guest-house, inn," neut. of L. adj. hospitalis "of a guest or host," from hospes (gen. hospitis); see host (1). Later "charitable institution to house and maintain the needy" (1418); sense of
"institution for sick people" is first recorded 1549. Hospitalize is from 1901, "Freq(uently) commented on as an unhappy formation" [OED].
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
hospital hos·pi·tal (hŏs'pĭ-tl, -pĭt'l)
n.
An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.
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Example sentences
Gridlocked cities are unable to ship goods around or deliver people to hospital, and it's important that those things take place.
If they were in the hospital getting treated the prayer didn't have anything to do with denial of treatment.
On an island without a hospital, it's an extremely serious injury.
Over the years regulations have developed to limit the hours of hospital interns and residents.
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