lazaret
/ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But the civilising was so complete that the survivors of the original inhabitants numbered seven, of whom two were dying of consumption in the Native Compound, three confined in the Native Lazaret with leprosy, the rest, a man and a woman, living in a gunyah at the remote end of Devilfish Bay, subsisting on what food they could get from the bush and the sea and what they could buy with the pennies the man earned by doing odd jobs and the woman by prostitution."
- "I woke the next morning in a lazaret, a long, high-ceilinged room where we, the sick, the injured, lay upon narrow beds."
- "The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts of the city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers."
- "The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: lazaret, lazzareto
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/
- British English: /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.