hospital

Other forms of hospital

plural

hospitals·

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.

Questions about hospital

What does hospital mean?

hospital means "a health facility where patients receive treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hospital?

hospital has 3 syllables: ho-spit-al. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˈhɑˌspɪtəl/.

What is another word for hospital?

Close synonyms include infirmary. 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 hospital a common word?

hospital is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hospital?

1 word rhymes with hospital. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.