Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonhospital

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-hos-pi-tal
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not in or relating to a hospital.

noun

An institution that is not a hospital.

Example Sentences

"They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery."
"The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said."
"Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals."

Etymology

From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Inflected Forms

nonhospitals (plural)

Questions

What does nonhospital mean?: Not in or relating to a hospital.
Where does nonhospital come from?: From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.

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