Synonyms for hospital


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hos-pi-tl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒs pɪ tl

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Définition of hospital

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "shelter for the needy," from Old French hospital, ospital "hostel" (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitale "guest-house, inn," neuter of Latin adjective hospitalis "of a guest or host," from hospes (genitive hospitis); see host (n.1). Later "charitable institution to house and maintain the needy" (early 15c.); sense of "institution for sick people" is first recorded 1540s.
  • noun place where ill, injured are treated
Example sentences :
  • They looked from the windows of the hospital, and from the roofs of houses.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • If only the house was her own, that she might turn it into a hospital!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • She could not bring herself at first to tell him about the hospital.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Closer to her than the hospital was life in the raw that night.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • He had seen her before in the hospital, but he had never really noticed how attractive she was.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The only dread she had was of the discovery of her escapade by the hospital authorities.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I admire him—you'd have to see him in the hospital, with every one deferring to him and all that, to understand.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • To his jealous eyes came a vision of that excursion to the hospital.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Dr. Wilson, the surgeon, is going to take me through the hospital this afternoon.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Only about the hospital—but Le Moyne had kept the note, treasured it!
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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