field hospital

1. 1.

   a temporary military hospital near the battle lines

   Broadermilitary hospital

   military

Questions about field hospital

What does field hospital mean?

field hospital means "a temporary military hospital near the battle lines".

Is field hospital a common word?

field hospital is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.