hospital ward
4
3.0
- noun
- /ˈhɑːspɪtl wɔrd/
:
sala de hospital
- After the surgery, she was taken to a hospital ward where doctors monitored her recovery.
This crazy girl who just said I've got four days to live and she's got to go through a urology hospital ward and all this nonsense.
- This crazy girl who just said I've got four days to live and she's got to go through a urology hospital ward and all this nonsense.
Examples
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Do you really want a nurse spreading flu around a hospital ward?
Blog text (13) -
So he came to yet one more day in the hospital ward.
Fiction book (1997) -
Make sure you get some of these back to the men in the hospital ward.
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I will not have the only thing my kids remember about me be a hospital ward.
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There were people of every type in the hospital ward.
Fiction book (1994) -
Hey, that hospital ward was packed with kids.
Academic text (1998) -
Russell did experience the informal solidarity of the hospital ward and thereafter of the friends he made there.
Academic text (1993) -
Hospital wards began to fill with sick soldiers, all with vomiting and stomach pain.
Fiction book (1994) -
Gravely injured, Connolly is moved to a hospital ward in Dublin Castle.
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We sat with Father Bobby in a third floor hospital ward, visiting John... ...hoping he'd recover from a punctured lung.
Synonyms
140
3.0
A room or area in a hospital where patients needing the same care stay
30
1.3
A room in a hospital where patients stay to get care
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably composed from 'hospital' (medical facility) + 'ward' (a division for patients), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the section of a hospital caring for a group of patients. This compound noun follows normal noun-noun composition and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, making it immediately understandable.
Etymology
The name hospital ward comes from the word ward, which once meant a part of a building that was watched or looked after. With hospital, it gives the image of an area where patients are watched and cared for, so it now means 'a section of a hospital where similar patients are cared for together'.