hospital

  • 31hospital — n. 1) to establish, found a hospital 2) to go to hospital (BE)/to go to the hospital (AE) 3) a base; children s; city, municipal; community, non profit; cottage (BE); evacuation; field; general; mental; military; private, proprietary (AE); state; …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 32Hospital — (Derivado de huésped.) ► sustantivo masculino 1 MEDICINA Establecimiento donde se asiste a los enfermos: ■ es el mejor hospital en traumatología. SINÓNIMO clínica sanatorio 2 HISTORIA Antigua hospedería para peregrinos enfermos. FRASEOLOGÍ …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 33hospital — Synonyms and related words: 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… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 34hospital */*/*/ — UK [ˈhɒspɪt(ə)l] / US [ˈhɑspɪt(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms hospital : singular hospital plural hospitals a) a place where people stay when they are ill or injured and need a lot of care from doctors and nurses in hospital: He spent a week in …

    English dictionary

  • 35Hospital — It may seem unnecessary to define a hospital since everyone knows the nature of a hospital. A hospital began as a charitable institution for the needy, aged, infirm, or young. The word hospital comes from the Latin hospes which refers to either a …

    Medical dictionary

  • 36hospital — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sanitarium, sanatorium; clinic, pesthouse, infirmary. See remedy. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. clinic, infirmary, sanatorium, sanitarium, dispensary, Red Cross hospital, VA hospital, mental hospital, army… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 37hospital — hos|pi|tal [ haspıtl ] noun count *** a place where people stay when they are sick or injured and need a lot of care from doctors and nurses: in the hospital: He spent a week in the hospital with food poisoning. be admitted to the hospital: She… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 38hospital — noun (C, U) a large building where sick or injured people are looked after and receive medical treatment: in/to/from hospital BrE: He s in hospital, recovering from an operation. | in/to/from the hospital AmE: After the accident Jane was rushed… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 39Hospital — Klinikum; Spital; Klinik; Krankenhaus * * * Hos|pi|tal [hɔspi ta:l], das; s, e und Hospitäler [hɔspi tɛ:lɐ]: [im Ausland gelegenes, kleineres] Krankenhaus: er wurde mit schweren Verletzungen in ein Hospital in Kabul eingeliefert. Syn.: ↑ Klinik,… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 40hospital — [[t]hɒ̱spɪt(ə)l[/t]] ♦ hospitals N VAR A hospital is a place where people who are ill are looked after by nurses and doctors. Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a children s hospital with 120 beds... A couple of weeks later my mother went into hospital …

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