hospitalとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.t̬l̩/

名詞

hospital (複数形 hospitals)

1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.

   Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (英国用法)

   Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (米国用法)

2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]

同意語

• sickhouse

派生語

関連する語

• hospice
• hospitable
• hospitality
• host

形容詞

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

1. (obsolete) Hospitable.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.

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