hospitals
- 1Plural of hospital.
Rural hospitals often struggle to recruit enough nurses.
Several hospitals reported a sharp rise in emergency visits.
Note
A regular plural, made with -s, that only the countable uses of hospital can take. When the word is used uncountably, as in admitted to hospital or a long stay in hospital, there is no plural to reach for. Hospitals can also name older institutions for long-term residents, such as almshouses, and in obsolete use any place of lodging. In historical writing the word need not mean medical buildings at all.
hospitals is a form of hospital
hospital, noun: A large medical facility, often a multi-story building, where seriously ill or injured patients receive extensive medical or surgical treatment. Full entry
- Forms
- hospitalhospitals plural
- Spelling
- hospital → hospitals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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