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spitals

spitals is the plural of spital.

Meaning of spital

Noun

spital (plural spitals)

  1. (historical) A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
    • Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

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Questions about spitals

What is spitals the plural of?
Spitals is the plural of spital.

Words near spitals in the dictionary

  1. spital
  2. Spitalfields
  3. spitalhouse
  4. spitalhouses
  5. Spitalny
  6. spitals
  7. spitball
  8. spitballed
  9. spitballer
  10. spitballers
  11. spitballing

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