a large building where people who are ill/sick or injured are given medical treatment and care: (BrE) He had to go to hospital for treatment. * (AmE) He had to go to the hospital for treatment. * to be admitted to (the) hospital * to be discharged from (the) hospital * The injured were rushed to (the) hospital in an ambulance. * He died in (the) hospital. * I'm going to the hospital to visit my brother. * a psychiatric / mental hospital * hospital doctors / nurses / staff * There is an urgent need for more day care centres and more hospital beds.
seealsoCOTTAGEHOSPITAL
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BRITISH/AMERICAN
hospital
In BrE you say to hospital or in hospital when you are a patient: I had to go to hospital. * She spent two weeks in hospital.
In AmE you need to use the: I had to go to the hospital. * She spent two weeks in the hospital.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hospital is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hospital a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hospital is tagged as noun.
Does hospital appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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