Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hospital for persons infected with the plague, smallpox, or other pestilential disease.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

Etymologies

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pest + house

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