hospital ship

1. 1.

   a ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime

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Questions about hospital ship

What does hospital ship mean?

hospital ship means "a ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime".

Is hospital ship a common word?

hospital ship 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.