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Hospital vs Sanitarium - What's the difference?

hospital | sanitarium |

As nouns the difference between hospital and sanitarium

is that hospital is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients while sanitarium is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective hospital

is hospitable.

hospital

English

(wikipedia hospital)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
  • A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  • (obsolete) A place of lodging.
  • * , II.ix:
    • they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
  • The place and state of being hospitalized.
    • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * cottage hospital

    Related terms

    * hospitable * hospitality * hospitaller

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) hospitable
    • (Howell)
    1000 English basic words ----

    sanitarium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (US)
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}

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