hospital room
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈhɑːspɪtl ruːm/
:
habitación de hospital
- I spent several days recovering in a hospital room after my surgery.
Jacob had just been delivered and I was in this hospital room where they deliver babies.
- Jacob had just been delivered and I was in this hospital room where they deliver babies.
- He used that hospital room and those injured, traumatized children as props.
- Joking aside, I have been with fighters and their families in a hospital room after fights.
- Well deserved, of course, but here he is, you know, alone in a hospital room with no, no celebration of any kind.
- He's, excuse me, the hospital room, he's in bed.
- And then in the hospital room, there's a, what do you call it?
- Now, this is really for the, the, the hospital room, but I mean, look at the handles.
- It was looking out the window of my hospital room and seeing poorly child, poorly child, poorly child.
- And so he and I talked it out in the next hospital room, you know, and he trusted me to you're good.
- So I I really didn't like the fact that while she was sitting in a plastic chair next to my hospital room.
- Once it rest, once while she did a concentration task, and then after I got the results, a couple of days later, I'm in her hospital room.
Examples
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The nurse brought me my medicine as I rested in the hospital room.
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The doctor explained my treatment plan while I sat in the hospital room.
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What really happened in that hospital room before I got there?
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The next thing I knew, I was in this hospital room.
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I went into the hospital room and straight to Mom.
Fiction book (1999) -
I walked into the hospital room.
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The last time I sat in a hospital room with you was when you fell off a horse and broke your arm.
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By morning, she and the baby lay in the sunny hospital room.
Fiction book (1992) -
As of today, she had been looking at the ceiling of the hospital room for seventy-three days.
Fiction book (2000) -
Sitting alone with Levin in his hospital room, she remembered that afternoon.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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3.0
A room or area in a hospital where patients needing the same care stay
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3.2
A hospital room where nurses watch patients as they wake from anesthesia
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3.0
A room in a hospital where patients with similar needs are cared for together
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3.2
A room where an ill person stays to rest and get care
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room in a hospital where patients receive care' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'hospital' (medical facility) + 'room' (indoor space). This noun-noun compounding is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Hospital room comes from the simple combination of hospital and room. Picture a small space with a bed where a sick person stays and nurses and doctors give care, so it means 'a room in a hospital where patients receive treatment'.