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hospitaller

hospitaller noun: a person who attends visitors in a religious institution.

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 hospitaller

pluralhospitallers
alternative formhospitaler

Origin of hospitaller

From Middle English hospiteler, from Middle French hospitalier; equivalent to hospital + -er. Piecewise doublet of hosteller.

Words formed from hospitaller

Phrases with hospitaller

Questions about hospitaller

What does hospitaller mean?
Hospitaller means a person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
What part of speech is hospitaller?
Hospitaller is a noun.
What is the plural of hospitaller?
The plural of hospitaller is hospitallers.

Words near hospitaller in the dictionary

  1. hospitalized
  2. hospitalizer
  3. hospitalizers
  4. hospitalizes
  5. hospitalizing
  6. hospitaller
  7. hospitallers
  8. hospitallike
  9. hospitalman
  10. hospitals
  11. hospitate

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