hospital attendant

1. 1.

   a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

   Synonymsorderly

   Broaderattendant

Questions about hospital attendant

What does hospital attendant mean?

hospital attendant means "a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients".

What is another word for hospital attendant?

Close synonyms include orderly. 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 attendant a common word?

hospital attendant 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.