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hospitals

hospitals is the plural of hospital.

Meaning of hospital

Noun

hospital (countable and uncountable, plural hospitals)

  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
    • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
  2. (archaic) A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
    • The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
  3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.
    • […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Phrases with hospitals

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Questions about hospitals

What is hospitals the plural of?
Hospitals is the plural of hospital.

Words near hospitals in the dictionary

  1. hospitalizing
  2. hospitaller
  3. hospitallers
  4. hospitallike
  5. hospitalman
  6. hospitals
  7. hospitate
  8. hospitated
  9. hospitates
  10. hospitating
  11. hospitation

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