hospital noun – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

    a large building where people who are ill or injured are given medical treatment and care

  • to/into (the) hospital

    (British English)

    He had to

    go to/into hospital

    for treatment.

  • (North American English)

    He had to

    go to/into the hospital

    for treatment.

  • I’m going to the hospital to visit my brother.

  • to

    be admitted to/into (the) hospital

  • Arrangements have been made for his admission to (the) hospital.

  • He’s

    been taken to (the) hospital

    for tests.

  • The injured

    were rushed to (the) hospital

    in an ambulance.

  • to

    leave (the) hospital

  • to

    be discharged/released from (the) hospital

  • to

    visit a hospital

  • in (the) hospital

    He

    died in hospital

    .

  • He was treated in the hospital for burns.

  • I spent four days in hospital.

  • I was in the hospital for four days.

  • in a hospital

    She works in a hospital in New York.

  • out of (the) hospital

    She came out of the hospital this morning.

  • at a hospital

    Doctors at the hospital decided to keep her in overnight.

  • a

    private/local hospital

  • a

    psychiatric/maternity hospital

  • a children’s hospital

  • The procedure requires a two-to-three-night

    hospital stay

    .

  • There is an urgent need for more

    hospital beds

    .

  • hospital admissions

  • hospital staff

  • a hospital ward/room

  • hospital treatment/care