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say it: HAH-spuhs
hospice is a noun meaning "a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)". It is pronounced /ˈhɑspəs/ — HAH-spuhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)
a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hospice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.