hospital

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• 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.
• A place of lodging.

Adjective

• Hospitable.

Related

Similar words

• sickhouse
• infirmary

Origin

• From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis ("hospice, shelter, guesthouse"), from noun use of Latin hospitālis ("hospitable"), from hospes. hotel, and hostel. Displaced native , from .