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/ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/ · noun
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment..
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
[…] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
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.
Use hospital when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hospital means A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment..
Common synonyms include sickhouse, infirmary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
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