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sickbay

sickbay noun: a place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).

Noun

sickbay (plural sickbays)

  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.
    • It was the piano lesson again—an orange-tiled floor, one high window, a new upright in a bare room close to the sickbay,2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 3

Synonyms of sickbay

Forms of sickbay

pluralsickbays
alternative formsick bay

Origin of sickbay

From sick + bay.

Questions about sickbay

What does sickbay mean?
Sickbay means a place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
What part of speech is sickbay?
Sickbay is a noun.
What is the plural of sickbay?
The plural of sickbay is sickbays.

Words near sickbay in the dictionary

  1. Sickafoose
  2. Sickafooses
  3. sickass
  4. sickbag
  5. sickbags
  6. sickbay
  7. sickbays
  8. sickbed
  9. sickbeds
  10. sicke
  11. sicked

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