hospital ward

What does hospital ward mean?

hospital ward means "block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care".

What is another word for hospital ward?

Close synonyms include ward. 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 ward a common word?

hospital ward 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hospital ward come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.