hospital
hospital - English
Alternative forms
- hospitale (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
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.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- clinic (small hospitals); field hospital (mobile, military); asylum, institution (mental health); leprosarium, leprosery, lazar house (leprosy); lazaret, lazaretto (port quarantine)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- antihospital
- children's hospital
- cottage hospital
- field hospital
- general hospital
- hospital corner
- hospital corpsman
- hospital fever
- hospital gangrene
- hospital gown
- hospitalise
- hospitalism
- hospitalist
- hospitalization
- hospitalize
- hospitaller
- hospital order
- hospital pass
- hospital ship
- hospital soap
- in-hospital
- in hospital
- interhospital
- in the hospital
- intrahospital
- lock hospital
- maternity hospital
- mental hospital
- military hospital
- multihospital
- nonhospital
- posthospital
- prehospital
- psychiatric hospital
- teaching hospital
- veterinary hospital
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
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Adjective
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
- (obsolete) Hospitable.
hospital - Asturian
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitales)
- hospital (building)
hospital - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA: /os.piˈtal/
- (Central) IPA: /us.piˈtal/
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitals)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hospitalitat
- hospici
- hostal
- hoste
hospital - Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: os‧pi‧tal
Noun
hospital
- a hospital; 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
Synonyms
- (a hospital): ospital, tambalanan
hospital - Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or IPA: /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]
Noun
hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)
Inflection
neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospitaler | hospitalerne |
genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitalers | hospitalernes |
Synonyms
- sygehus n
hospital - French
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitaux)
- Obsolete spelling of hôpital
hospital - Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɔspiˈtal/
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitais)
- hospital
- Foi visitar un enfermo ao hospital. Un hospital privado.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
hospital - Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hos.piˈtal/
Adjective
hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)
Noun
hospital (plural hospitales)
hospital - Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hɔspital/
Noun
hospital (Jawi spelling هوسڤيتل, plural hospital-hospital, informal 1st possessive hospitalku, 2nd possessive hospitalmu, 3rd possessive hospitalnya)
- hospital (building)
- Synonym: rumah sakit
Descendants
- → Iban: sepital
hospital - Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɔspiˈtaːl/, /ˈɔspital/
Noun
hospital (plural hospitals)
- A hostel or guesthouse; a place of accommodation or lodging.
- A shelter for the poor, ill or otherwise needy.
- A place of refuge; a retreat or redoubt.
- The Knights Hospitaller (a religious order)
Related terms
Descendants
Adjective
hospital
Descendants
- English: hospital (obsolete)
hospital - Middle French
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitaulx)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
- French: hôpital
hospital - Old French
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
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitale | hospital |
Oblique | hospital | hospitale | hospital | |
Plural | Subject | hospital | hospitales | hospital |
Oblique | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitales | hospital |
hospital - Old Occitan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /us.piˈtal/
Noun
hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)
Related terms
- hospitaleir
- hospitalitat
Descendants
- Occitan: espital
hospital - Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /os.piˈtaw/ [os.piˈtaʊ̯]
- (Brazil) IPA: /os.piˈtaw/ [os.piˈtaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /oʃ.piˈtaw/ [oʃ.piˈtaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA: /ɔʃ.piˈtal/ [ɔʃ.piˈtaɫ]
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ɔs.piˈtaw/
- Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitais)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hospedar
- hospedaria
- hóspede
- hospedeiro
- hospício
- hospitalário
- hospitaleiro
- hospitalidade
Descendants
hospital - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ospiˈtal/ [os.piˈt̪al]
- Syllabification: hos‧pi‧tal
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
hospital - Swedish
Noun
hospital n
- (archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
- (archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
- (archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
- Synonym: helgeandshus
- (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
Declension
Declension of hospital | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospital | hospitalen |
Genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitals | hospitalens |