hospital

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.
2. n. Chiefly British A charitable institution, such as an orphanage or a home for the elderly.
3. n. A repair shop for specified items: a doll hospital.
4. n. Archaic A hospice for travelers or pilgrims.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Hospitable.
2. n. A place of shelter or entertainment; an inn.
3. n. An institution or establishment for dispensing hospitality or caring for the needy; an asylum for shelter or maintenance. This old sense still appears in the term foundling hospital, and in the names of some institutions in Great Britain founded for either the care or education, or both, of persons needing help: as, Greenwich Hospital for retired seamen, a national institution; Christ's Hospital for the free education of boys, founded by the corporation of London, chartered in 1553, and often called the Blue-Coat school, from the uniform of its pupils.
4. n. Now, specifically, an establishment or institution for the care of the sick or wounded, or of such as require medical or surgical treatment. Hospitals are either public or private, free or paying, or both combined, and general or special with respect to the kinds of disease or classes of persons admitted. In ancient Greece the sanctuaries of Æsculapius included establishments closely akin to medieval and modern hospitals.
5. n. In the navy, the designation formerly given to the apothecary.
6. n. The tennis now extended to include establishments for the care and cure of sick or injured animals, such as horses, dogs, cats, etc.
7. To receive and care for in a hospital.

Wiktionary

1. n. A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
2. n. A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
3. n. obsolete A place of lodging.
4. n. UK The place and state of being hospitalized.
5. adj. obsolete hospitable

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
2. n. 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.
3. adj. obsolete Hospitable.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a health facility where patients receive treatment
2. n. a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care