hospital

See also: Hospital and hôpital

English

Alternative forms

hospitale (obsolete)

Etymology

A room in a hospital

From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
(obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
- Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.t̬l̩/
- Audio (US) (file)

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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]

Synonyms

sickhouse

Hyponyms

clinic (small hospitals); field hospital (mobile, military); asylum, institution (mental health); leprosarium, leprosery, lazar house (leprosy); lazaret, lazaretto (port quarantine)

Coordinate terms

infirmary, nurse's office (rooms within a larger institution such as a school); surgery (UK), doctor's office (separate medical practices)

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

hospice
hospitable
hospitality
host

Descendants

→ Baluchi: اسپتال‎ (ispatāl)
→ Bengali: হাসপাতাল (haspatal)
→ Cebuano: hospital
→ Malay: hospital
→ Sindhi: اسپتال‎ (ispatāl)
→ Swahili: hospitali
→ Zulu: isibhedlela

Translations

large medical facility

Abkhaz: ахәшәтәырҭа (axʷŝʷtʷʼərta)
Afrikaans: hospitaal (af), siekehuis
Albanian: spital (sq) m
Amharic: ሐኪም ቤት (ḥäkim bet), ሆስፒታል (hospital)
Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى‎ (ar) m (mustašfan), مَارِسْتَان‎ m (māristān)
Egyptian Arabic: مستشفة‎ f (mustašfa), قشلة‎ (obsolete)
Hijazi Arabic: مُسْتَشْفى‎ (mustašfa)
Moroccan Arabic: سبيطار‎ m (sbīṭār)
North Levantine Arabic: خستخانة‎ (Syria)
South Levantine Arabic: مُسْتَشْفًى‎ (mustašfa), إسبيطَار‎ (Galilee), سْبِيتَار‎ (Palestine)
Aragonese: espital m
Armenian: հիվանդանոց (hy) (hivandanocʿ)
Assamese: হস্পিতাল (hospital)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܟܪ̈ܝܼܗܹܐ‎ m (bēt krīhe)
Asturian: hospital m
Azerbaijani: xəstəxana (az), qospital
Baluchi: اسپتال‎ (ispatāl)
Bashkir: дауахана (dawaxana), хәстәхана (xästäxana)
Basque: ospitale, erietxe
Belarusian: бальні́ца f (balʹníca), бо́льніца f (bólʹnica), шпіта́ль m (špitálʹ), ляка́рня f (ljakárnja)
Bengali: হাসপাতাল (bn) (haspatal)
Bole: azibiti
Bulgarian: бо́лница (bg) f (bólnica)
Burmese: ဆေးရုံ (my) (hce:rum)
Buryat: эмнэлгэ (emnelge)
Catalan: hospital (ca) m
Central Dusun: lamin pongusapan
Chechen: больница (bolʲnica)
Cherokee: ᏧᏂᏢᎩᎢ (tsunitlvgii)
Cheyenne: naa'émâhéó'o
Chichewa: chipatala
Chinese:
Cantonese: 醫院, 医院 (ji¹ jyun⁶)
Dungan: бинйүан (binyüan)
Hakka: 病院 (phiang-yen, piô-yín, phiang-yan)
Mandarin: 醫院／医院 (zh) (yīyuàn)
Min Dong: 醫院, 医院 (ĭ-iêng)
Min Nan: 病院 (zh-min-nan) (pēⁿ-īⁿ, pīⁿ-īⁿ, pēⁿ-ìⁿ, pīⁿ-ìⁿ, pǐⁿ-ǐⁿ)
Wu: 醫院, 医院 (i hhyoe)
Chuvash: пульница (pulʹnitsa)
Cornish: klavji m, kloa'ji m
Crimean Tatar: hastahane, şifahane
Czech: nemocnice (cs) f, špitál (cs) m (dated, colloquial)
Danish: hospital (da) n, sygehus (da) n
Dhivehi: އަސްފަތާލު‎ (asfatālu), ހޮސްޕިޓަލު‎ (hospiṭalu)
Dutch: ziekenhuis (nl) n, hospitaal (nl) n, gasthuis (nl) n
Erzya: ормакудо (ormakudo)
Esperanto: malsanulejo, hospitalo
Estonian: haigla (et)
Ewe: atikewɔƒe n, kɔdzi n
Faroese: sjúkrahús n
Fiji Hindi: aspataal (hif)
Finnish: sairaala (fi)
Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl m
French: hôpital (fr) m
Friulian: ospedâl m
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤧𞤢𞤬𞤪𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤵‎
Roman: safrirdu
Galician: hospital (gl) m
Georgian: საავადმყოფო (saavadmq̇opo), ჰოსპიტალი (hosṗiṭali)
German: Krankenhaus (de) n, Spital (de) n (regional or dated)
Greek: νοσοκομείο (el) n (nosokomeío)
Ancient: ὑγιαστήριον n (hugiastḗrion), νοσοκομεῖον n (nosokomeîon) (Koine)
Greenlandic: napparsimmavik
Guaraní: tasyo
Gujarati: રુગ્ણાલય ? (rugṇālya), ઈસ્પિતાલ ? (īspitāl)
Haitian Creole: lopital
Hausa: asibiti (ha)
Hawaiian: haukapila, hale maʻi
Hebrew: בֵּית חוֹלִים‎ (he) m (beit kholím)
Hiligaynon: ospital, klinika, bululngan
Hindi: अस्पताल (hi) m (aspatāl), चिकित्सालय (hi) m (cikitsālay), शफाखाना (hi) m (śaphākhānā)
Hungarian: kórház (hu)
Hunsrik: Krankehaus n
Icelandic: sjúkrahús (is) n, spítali (is) m
Indonesian: rumah sakit (id)
Interlingua: hospital
Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ (aanniafik)
Irish: ospidéal (ga) m
Istriot: uspadal m
Italian: ospedale (it) m
Japanese: 病院 (ja) (びょういん, byōin), 医院 (ja) (いいん, iin)
Jarai: sang ia jrao
Jeju: 벵완 (beng'wan)
Kabuverdianu: ospital
Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (kn) (āspatre)
Kazakh: аурухана (kk) (auruxana)
Khmer: មន្ទីរពេទ្យ (mŭəntii pɛɛt), មន្ទីរព្យាបាលរោគ (mŭəntii pyiəbaal rook)
Korean: 병원(病院) (ko) (byeong'won), 의원(醫院) (ko) (uiwon)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نەخۆشخانە‎ (ku) (nexoşxane), خەستەخانە‎ (ku) (xestexane)
Northern Kurdish: nexweşxane (ku), xestexane (ku), bîmaristan (ku)
Kyrgyz: оорукана (ky) (oorukana)
Lao: ໂຮງໝໍ (lo) (hōng mǭ), ໂຮງພະຢາບານ (hōng pha yā bān)
Latin: nosocomīum (la) n, valētūdinārium (la) n, (Medieval) infirmaria f
Latvian: slimnīca f
Lingala: ndáko ya bokɔnɔ, lopitálo
Lithuanian: ligoninė f
Lombard: ospedal (lmo) ?
Luhya: osipito
Luo: osuptal
Luxembourgish: Spidol n, Klinick f, Klinik f
Macedonian: бо́лница f (bólnica)
Malagasy: hopitaly (mg)
Malay: hospital (ms), rumah sakit
Malayalam: ആശുപത്രി (ml) (āśupatri)
Maltese: sptar m
Manx: spittal m, thie lheihys m
Marathi: रुग्णालय (mr) ? (rugṇālay)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: эмнэлэг (mn) (emneleg), эмнэлэг хороо (emneleg xoroo) (China), госпиталь (gospitalʹ), больниц (mn) (bolʹnic)
Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠨᠡᠯᠭᠡ (emnelge), ᠡᠮᠨᠡᠯᠭᠡ
ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (emnelge qoriy'a), ᠾᠣᠰᠫᠢᠲ᠋ᠠᠯᠢ (hospitali), ᠪᠣᠯᠢᠨᠢᠼᠠ (bolinica)
Navajo: azeeʼálʼį́
Nepali: चिकित्सालय (ne) (cikitsālaya), अस्पताल (ne) (aspatāl)
Newar: चिकित्सालय (cikitsālaya)
Ngamo: janar
Northern Ndebele: isibhedlela
Northern Sami: buohcceviessu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sykehus (no) n, sjukehus (no) n
Nynorsk: sjukehus n
Occitan: espital (oc) m, espitau (oc) m
Old English: lǣċehūs n
Oriya: ଡାକ୍ତରଖାନା (ḍaktôrôkhana)
Ossetian: рынчындон (rynḱyndon)
Papiamentu: hòspital
Pashto: روغتون‎ (ps) m (roǧtun), شفاخانه‎ (ps) f (šafāxāna), هاسپيټل‎ m (hāspiṭal), هسپټال‎ m (hasрaṭāl)
Persian: بیمارستان‎ (fa) (bimârestân), شفاخانه‎ (fa) (šafâxâna) (Dari)
Pitjantjatjara: atjupitila
Plautdietsch: Hospitol n
Polish: szpital (pl) m
Portuguese: hospital (pt) m
Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (pa) m (haspatāl)
Quechua: unquna wasi, jampina wasi
Romanian: spital (ro) n
Russian: больни́ца (ru) f (bolʹníca), го́спиталь (ru) m (góspitalʹ) (usually a military hospital), кли́ника (ru) f (klínika), лече́бница (ru) f (lečébnica)
Rusyn: бо́лниця f (bólnycja), шпіта́ль m (špitálʹ), шпіта́льня f (špitálʹnja)
Samoan: falema'i
Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय m (cikitsālaya)
Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis m, taigh-eiridinn m, taigh-tinnis m, ospadal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо́лница f
Roman: bólnica (sh) f
Shona: chipatara
Sicilian: spitali (scn) m
Sindhi: اسپتال‎ (sd) f (ispatāl)
Sinhalese: ආරෝග්‍යශාලා (si) (ārōgyaśālā), රෝහල් (rōhal)
Slovak: nemocnica (sk) f
Slovene: bolnišnica f, bolnica (sl) f
Somali: isbitaal
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: chórownja f
Upper Sorbian: chorownja f
Spanish: hospital (es) m
Swahili: hospitali (sw)
Swazi: esibhedlela
Swedish: sjukhus (sv) n, lasarett (sv) n
Tagalog: ospital (tl), pagamutan
Tajik: бемористон (tg) (bemoriston), касалхона (tg) (kasalxona), беморхона (tg) (bemorxona)
Tamil: மருத்துவமனை (ta) (maruttuvamaṉai)
Tatar: хастаханә (xastaxanä), шифаханә (tt) (şifaxanä)
Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (te) (āsupatri), వైద్యశాల (te) (vaidyaśāla), దవాఖానా (davākhānā) (Telangana), చికిత్సాశాల (cikitsāśāla), చికిత్సాలయము (cikitsālayamu)
Tetum: ospitál, uma-moras
Thai: โรงพยาบาล (th) (roong-pá-yaa-baan)
Tibetan: སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)
Tigrinya: ሆስፒታል (hospital), ቤት ሕክምና (bet ḥəkməna)
Tok Pisin: haus sik
Turkish: hastane (tr), emlerge, sayrılarevi (tr)
Turkmen: keselhana, gospital
Cyrillic: кеселхана, госпитал
Ukrainian: ліка́рня f (likárnja), шпита́ль m (špytálʹ), го́спіталь m (hóspitalʹ), болни́ця f (bolnýcja)
Urdu: ہسپتال‎ m (haspatāl)
Uyghur: دوختورخانا‎ (doxtorxana), دوختۇرخانا‎ (doxturxana)
Uzbek: kasalxona (uz), shifoxona (uz)
Venetian: ospedal m, ospeal m
Vietnamese: bệnh viện (vi), nhà thương (vi), y viện (vi)
Warray: baláy-tambalan
Welsh: ysbyty (cy) m
Xhosa: esibhedlele
Yiddish: שפּיטאָל‎ m (shpitol)
Yoruba: ilé-ìwòsàn
Zhuang: yihyen
Zulu: isibhedlela

Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

(obsolete) Hospitable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
  At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

hospital (building)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hostal.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /os.piˈtal/

(Central) IPA^(key): /us.piˈtal/
Audio (file)

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

hospital

Derived terms

hospital psiquiàtric
hospitalitzar

Related terms

hospitalitat
hospici
hostal
hoste

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

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

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or IPA^(key): /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]

Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

hospital

Inflection

Declension of hospital

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hospital	hospitalet	hospitaler	hospitalerne
genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitalers	hospitalernes

Synonyms

sygehus n

French

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

Obsolete spelling of hôpital

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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)

Interlingua

FWOTD – 28 April 2020

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hos.piˈtal/

Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

hospitable
- 1992, Ramiro Castro, “Un septimana in asuncion”, in Panorama in Interlingua, volume 1992, number martio-april:
  Le populo es multo hospital e amabile.
  The people are very hospitable and amiable.

Noun

hospital (plural hospitales)

hospital
- 1959 March, A. Donald Merritt & Bernard F. Fetter, "Toxic Hepatic Necrosis (Hepatitis) due to Isoniazid: Report of a Case with Cirrhosis and Death due to Hemorrhage from Esophageal Varices", Annals of Internal Medicine, page 810.
  Esseva constatate plus tarde que illa habeva recipite streptomycina, isoniazido, e acido para-aminosalicylic un anno previemente a un altere hospital.
  It was established later that she had received streptomycin, isoniazid and para-aminosalicylic acid a year earlier at another hospital.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, from Middle English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɔspital/
Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

hospitale, hospitall, hospitalle, hospitel, hospytal, hospytale, hospytall, ospitale

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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

hospitalarye
hospitalite
hospiteler

Descendants

English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
Scots: hospital

References

“hospitāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Adjective

hospital

hospitable

Descendants

English: hospital (obsolete)

References

“hospitāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”) from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

hospital (medical)

Descendants

French: hôpital

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Compare the inherited ostel.

Noun

hospital m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

hospital (medical)

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: ospitel
- → Middle Irish: ospitél
  - Irish: ospidéal
  - Scottish Gaelic: ospadal
Middle French: hospital
- French: hôpital
→ Dutch: hospitaal
- Afrikaans: hospitaal
- → Caribbean Hindustani: aspatál
→ Middle English: hospital
- English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: hospital
→ Russian: госпиталь (gospitalʹ)

Adjective

hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

hospitable; welcoming

Declension

Declension of hospital

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	hospitals, hospitaus	hospitale	hospital
Singular	Oblique	hospital	hospitale		hospitale	hospital
Plural	Subject	hospital	hospitales		hospital
Plural	Oblique	hospitals, hospitaus	hospitales		hospitales	hospital

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

ospital, espital

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitāle (“hospital; guesthouse”), noun use of the neuter form of hospitālis (“pertaining to a host or guest”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /us.piˈtal/

Noun

hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

hospital
- 12^th c., Lo codi [The Code], translation of Codex Justinianeus by Justinian I:
  A gleisas et a hospitals
  to churches and hospitals
One of several religious orders.

Related terms

hospitaleir
hospitalitat

Descendants

Occitan: espital

Portuguese

Alternative forms

espital

Etymology

From Old Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /os.piˈtaw/ [os.piˈtaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʃ.piˈtaw/ [oʃ.piˈtaʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔʃ.piˈtal/ [ɔʃ.piˈtaɫ]

(Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɔs.piˈtaw/
Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

hospital
Synonym: nosocómio

Derived terms

hospitalar
hospitalizar

Related terms

hospedar
hospedaria
hóspede
hospedeiro
hospício
hospitalário
hospitaleiro
hospitalidade

Descendants

Kabuverdianu: ospital
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: अस्पताल (aspatāl)
- → Caribbean Hindustani: aspataal
- → Fiji Hindi: aspataal
Urdu: اسپتال‎ (aspatāl)
→ Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (āspatre)
→ Nepali: अस्पताल (aspatāl)
→ Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (haspatāl)
→ Tetum: ospitál

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostal.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ospiˈtal/ [os.piˈt̪al]
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Rhymes: -al
Syllabification: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

hospital
Synonym: nosocomio

Derived terms

hospital psiquiátrico

Related terms

hospitalidad
hospicio
hostal
hospedar
huésped

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→ Karao: ospital
→ Tagalog: ospital

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitale, nominalisation of Latin hospitalis (“hospitality”).

Noun

hospital n

(archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
(archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
- 1844, Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe, Morianen, eller Holstein-Gottorpiska huset i Sverige. Tidsbilder, började på fästningen. Sjette och sista delen‎, page 44:
  Hennes person kan liknas vid ett hospital, som utanpå är likt ett nymåladt palats, men hyser inom sig död, sjukdom och förskräckelse; […]
  Her person may be likened to a leprosarium, which on the outside is like a newly painted palace, but harbors within it death, disease, and horror; […]
(archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
Synonym: helgeandshus
(archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
- 1843–1846, August Blanche, “En trappa upp och på nedra botten, eller Grosshandlaren och Klädmäklaren [1843]”, in Theater-stycken I‎, page 76:
  Hvar har ni fått de der idéerna ifrån? ni måtte ha rymt från något hospital i Frankrike?
  Where did you get those ideas from? you must have escaped from some mental institution in France?

Declension

Declension of hospital
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hospital	hospitalet	hospital	hospitalen
Genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitals	hospitalens

hospital

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