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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsənt/
• 韻: -ɛsənt

形容詞

convalescent (not comparable)

1. recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 282:

     So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men, she insisted on discharging "that odious woman," the nurse,...

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"

2. of convalescence or convalescents

   She stayed in a convalescent hospital for two weeks before returning home.

派生語

名詞

convalescent (複数形 convalescents)

1. A person recovering from illness.

   I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.

関連する語

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.u̯aˈleːs.kent/, [kɔnu̯äˈɫ̪eːs̠kɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.vaˈleʃ.ʃent/, [koɱväˈlɛʃːen̪t̪]

動詞

convalēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of convalēscō