Index of English words, starting with "ho"

(1) - Hospital (a.) Hospitable.
(2) - Hospital (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
(3) - Hospital (n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.

(1) - Hospitaler (n.) One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.
(2) - Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

(1) - Hospitality (n.) The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.

(1) - Hospitalize (v. t.) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.