clinic
Syllables: cli·nic/ˈklɪn.ɪk/
clinic noun: a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
Noun
clinic (plural clinics)
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
- A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
- A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.
- We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year.1986, Music Trades, volume 134, numbers 1-6, page 38
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
- A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
- A bed-ridden person
- Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.
- We are all Clinicks in this point1666, Sancroft, 'Lex Ignea 41
- The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not...1833, Enoch Pond, Treatise on Christian Baptism, page 43
clinic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
clinic in Hindi
- medical facility
- निदानगृह nidāngŕh
clinic in Tamil
- மருத்துவகம், மருத்துவச் சிற்றில், மருத்துவமனை, மருந்தகம்
clinic in Marathi
- clinic, hospital, davakhana
- दवाखाना davākhānā
clinic in Urdu
- medical facility
- کِلِینِک kilīnik
More languagesFewer languages
- clinic in Bengali
- ক্লিনিক klinik, চিকিৎসালয় cikitśaloẏ
- clinic in Malayalam
- ക്ലിനിക്ക് klinikkŭ
- clinic in Kannada
- ದವಾಖಾನೆ davākhāne
- clinic in Pashto
- کلېنيک kleník
- clinic in Arabic
- عِيَادَة ʕiyāda, مَصَحَّة maṣaḥḥa
- clinic in Malay
- klinik
- clinic in Indonesian
- klinik
- clinic in Thai
- คลินิก klí-nìk, เวชสถาน
- clinic in Vietnamese
- phòng khám bệnh, phòng khám, phòng mạch
- clinic in Myanmar
- ဆေးခန်း hce:hkan:
Examples of clinic in a sentence
- It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood.1833, Enoch Pond, Treatise on Christian Baptism, page 43:
- Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders.1861, James Chrystal, A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism, page 97:
- As "baby sprinkling" is an offence which it abhors, so Clinic sprinkling is a sham which it detests.1874, James Wilkinson Dale, An Inquiry Into the Usage of Baptizo, page 523:
- Laurence was universal except in the case of a handful of Clinics—so small that they scarcely deserve to be named—the story is unworthy of notice.1878, William Cathcart, The Baptism of the Ages and of the Nations, page 126:
Forms of clinic
| plural | clinics |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | clinique |
Origin of clinic
Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).
Words formed from clinic
Phrases with clinic
Words that rhyme with clinic
- actinic
- Finnic
- amphetaminic
- caprinic
- cynic
- Darwinic
- euxinic
- finick
- franklinic
- hematinic
- homoclinic
- isonicotinic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Jacobinic
- muscarinic
- nicotinic
- paraffinic
- rabbinic
- Sinic
- vitaminic
- abietinic
- acetylinic
- acetylneuraminic
- achromatinic
- acinic
- aclinic
- acrodynic
- adenylosuccinic
- adiactinic
- agaricinic
- albinic
- alginic
- allodynic
- aluminic
- aminic
- aminolaevulinic
- aminolevulinic
- aminosuccinic
- amyelinic
- anilinic
- anodynic
- anthracyclinic
- antiallodynic
- antidinic
- antihistaminic
- antimuscarinic
- antinicotinic
- antirabbinic
- apobaraminic
- apurinic
- apyrimidinic
- argininosuccinic
- arsinic
- artemisinic
- asparaginic
- atropinic
- auxinic
- axomyelinic
- azinic
- Baltic-Finnic
- Balto-Finnic
Questions about clinic
- What does clinic mean?
- Clinic means a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- What is clinic in Hindi?
- Clinic in Hindi is निदानगृह (nidāngŕh). See Clinic meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use clinic in a sentence?
- It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood.
- What part of speech is clinic?
- Clinic is a noun.
- How do you pronounce clinic?
- Clinic is pronounced /ˈklɪn.ɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of clinic?
- The plural of clinic is clinics.
Words near clinic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clinic (page history and authors); clinic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दवाखाना (Marathi) (page history and authors); ക്ലിനിക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ದವಾಖಾನೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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