A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.

(obsolete) Hospitable.

To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital. / (medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. / Said of an injury or illness.

The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.

The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital. / Insurance that pays a patient's expenses.

plural of hospital

(Canada, US, idiomatic) Admitted as a patient in a hospital.

(chiefly UK) In a hospital as a patient.

present participle of hospitalize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalize