Sickhouse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
"The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used."
Example
More examples"The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used."
Etymology
From Middle English sykhous, sek hous (“hospital”, literally “a house for the sick”), equivalent to sick + house. Cognate with West Frisian sikehûs (“hospital”), Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”), German Low German Süükhuus, Sükenhuus (“hospital”), German Siechhaus, Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), Danish sygehus (“hospital”), Swedish sjukhus (“hospital”), Icelandic sjúkrahús (“hospital”). Compare also German Krankenhaus (“hospital”), Saterland Frisian Kroankenhuus (“hospital”), Old English lǣċehūs (“hospital”).
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