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hospitaler

hospitaler is the alternative form of hospitaller.

Meaning of hospitaller

Noun

hospitaller (plural hospitallers)

  1. A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
    • […] if the celestial gods do not harken to our cry, we will perish by the noose and fare to the god of the nether world, the great hospitaller of the dead […]1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 39
  2. A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals.

Forms of hospitaler

pluralhospitalers

Questions about hospitaler

What is hospitaler the alternative form of?
Hospitaler is the alternative form of hospitaller.

Words near hospitaler in the dictionary

  1. hospital socks
  2. Hospital Sunday
  3. Hospital Sundays
  4. hospitalary
  5. hospitale
  6. hospitaler
  7. hospitalers
  8. hospitales
  9. hospitalisable
  10. hospitalisation
  11. hospitalisations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hospitaler (page history and authors); hospitaller (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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