hospital

Definition

Examples

The new hospital will open next year and hire fifty nurses.

Word Family

Synonyms

• clinica medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists
• medical centerhaving a meaning similar to hospital
• infirmarya health facility where patients receive treatment

Collocations

• Easy go to the hospital
  to go to the hospital, meaning to change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
• Medium hospital administration staff
  describing hospital administration staff (a health facility where patients receive treatment)
• Hard university teaching hospital
  describing university teaching hospital (the body of faculty and students at a university)
• Very Hard languish in hospital awaiting prognosis
  to languish in hospital awaiting prognosis, meaning to lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief