Hospital

Noun

 * 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.

Adjectives for Hospital
contemporary; improvised; convalescent; dingy; special; cheerless; contagious.

Synonyms for Hospital
clinic, sanitarium, asylum, infirmary, pesthouse, sick bay, sanatorium, lazaretto.

Derived terms

 * cottage hospital

Related terms

 * hospitable
 * hospitality

Thesaurus
VA hospital, asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, dispensary, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, infirmary, inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, nursing home, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic, private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home, sanatorium, sanitarium, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic

Etymology
From hospital: (Modern French hôpital:) <  hospitalis: < hospes:

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hospitaal
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic:
 * Aragonese: espital
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: xəstəxana
 * Basque: ospitale, erietxe
 * Belarusian: бальніца, шпiталь, лякарня
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: hospital
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hospital, sygehus
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: haigla
 * Ewe: atikewɔƒe, kɔdzi
 * Faroese:
 * Filipino: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon:, ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: rumah sakit, hospital
 * Interlingua: hospital
 * Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ
 * Irish: ospidéal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: аурухана
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: slimnīca
 * Lithuanian: ligoninė
 * Lombard: ospedal
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: rumah sakit, hospital
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian: эмнэлэг, госпиталь
 * Norwegian:
 * Papiamentu: hòspital
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis, taigh-eiridinn , taigh-tinnis ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: болница
 * Roman: bolnica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ospital, pagamutan
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: хастаханә
 * Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (aasupatri)
 * Tetum: ospitál, uma-moras
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: кеселхана, госпитал
 * Ukrainian: лікарня, шпiталь
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:

Etymology
From hospitale:, from the neuter form of hospitalis:, from hospes:.

Pronunciation

 * or

Noun

 * 1) hospital

Synonyms

 * sygehus

Adjective

 * 1) hospitable

Noun

 * 1)  medical

Noun

 * 1) hospital

Noun

 * 1)  mental hospital