hospital

IPA: hˈɑspɪtʌɫ

A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
(obsolete) A place of lodging.
A surname.

Examples of "hospital" in Sentences

Lawhorn says his only complaint about the hospital is the long wait.
If the hospital is anything like that clinic, it must be a very top-notch place.
+hospital+ (7 in plan), having a frontage of 192 yards, built in the last century on the site of the hospital of St. Martha, founded in 1354.
The baby dies; but she pulls through after a few weeks in hospital, is charged with murder, convicted, and sentenced to ten years 'penal servitude.
Joe: OH NO!! we got to get him to the hospital right now! (pick up nick and carries him to the car and the girls follow) * they rush to the hospital*
A patient in hospital is a different person to one who is intent on not complying with instructions from a police officer carrying out his lawful duty.
Half a dozen licences were issued to the brothers by Edward III, one of which, dating from 1329, is the first document in which the word hospital is applied to Bethlem.
It is often met with in those who are much exposed to air contaminated with organisms -- for example, patients who have been long in hospital, or the resident staff of hospitals (_septic_ or _hospital throat_), and particularly in persons of a "rheumatic" tendency.