foundling hospital

1. 1.

   a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for

   Synonymscreche

   Broaderhospital

Questions about foundling hospital

What does foundling hospital mean?

foundling hospital means "a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for".

What is another word for foundling hospital?

Close synonyms include creche. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foundling hospital a common word?

foundling 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.