Definition of Hospital

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Hospital

A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.

A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.

Hospitable.

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Hospital Quotations

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma Bombeck

A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
R. Lee Ermey

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
R. Lee Ermey

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Stephen King

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

Hospital Translations

hospital in Afrikaans is hospitaal
hospital in Danish is hospital
hospital in Dutch is hospitaal, gasthuis, ziekenhuis
hospital in German is Krankenhaus
hospital in Italian is nosocomio, clinica, ospedale
hospital in Norwegian is hospital, sykehus
hospital in Portuguese is hospital
hospital in Spanish is hospital
hospital in Swedish is sjukhus

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