Sickhouse

Quick meaning: Sickhouse is a noun meaning A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.

Meaning

A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.

Example Sentences

Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," […]

The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.

What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, […]

Word Forms

• sickhouses

Synonyms for sickhouse

Depending on context, synonyms include infirmary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include infirmary, sickroom, sickbay, sickbed, spital, carehouse.

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