hospital ship
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈhɑːspɪtl ʃɪp/
:
barco hospital
- Crew members on the hospital ship Mercy are participating in a mass casualty exercise.
- hospital ship Comfort
- Navy hospital ship
- hospital ship Mercy
A small advance team for the previous three months had posted Flyers throughout the country advertising the coming of the hospital ship.
- A small advance team for the previous three months had posted Flyers throughout the country advertising the coming of the hospital ship.
Examples
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My dad served on the hospital ship USS Mercy (AH-8) during the Second World War.
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My brother-in-law Ralph Edmund Spence, Pvt. USMC, was mortally wounded at Iwo Jima and later died aboard a hospital ship.
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I woke up three days later on a hospital ship.
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The hospital ship is doing just fine treating their patients.
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The USA and China have hospital ships, fully equipped for medical assistance.
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The United States Navy dispatched a hospital ship called the Comfort, where doctors treated nearly 1,000 patients.
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During the war, she served on the hospital ship Benevolence in the Pacific.
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The United States Navy dispatched a hospital ship called the Comfort, where doctors treated nearly 1,000 patients.
How Medical
- Specialized
2
3.9
5
3.9
- Specialized
8
4.0
26
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ship equipped and staffed to serve as a hospital' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'hospital' (medical facility) with 'ship' (a vessel), i.e., a vessel that functions as a hospital. This straightforward noun+noun compounding follows regular English composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Hospital ship comes from the clear image of a hospital on a ship. It describes a ship fitted with doctors, beds and equipment to care for the sick or wounded at sea, so it means 'a ship used as a hospital'.