"hospice" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhɑspɪs/ [US], /ˈhɒspɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: hospices [plural]
Rhymes: (US) -ɑspɪs Etymology: Borrowed from French hospice, from Old French hospise, from Latin hospitium (“hospitality, an inn”). Doublet of hospitium. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|hospice}} French hospice, {{der|en|fro|hospise}} Old French hospise, {{der|en|la|hospitium||hospitality, an inn}} Latin hospitium (“hospitality, an inn”), {{doublet|en|hospitium}} Doublet of hospitium Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hospice (countable and uncountable, plural hospices)
  1. (countable, dated) A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order. Tags: countable, dated
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  2. (uncountable) The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life. Tags: uncountable
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  3. (countable) A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill. Tags: countable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hospital, hospitable Translations (a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill): hospies (Afrikaans), hospitium (Afrikaans), хоспис (hospis) [masculine] (Bulgarian), hospici [masculine] (Catalan), casa de beneficència [feminine] (Catalan), 安養院 (Chinese Mandarin), 安养院 (ānyǎngyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), hospice (Dutch), saattokoti (Finnish), hospice [masculine] (French), Hospiz [neuter] (German), άσυλο ανιάτων (ásylo aniáton) [neuter] (Greek), הוספיס (hóspis) [masculine] (Hebrew), מרכז לטיפול תומך (merkáz letipúl tomékh) [masculine] (Hebrew), ospís [feminine] (Irish), ospizio (Italian), casa di cura (Italian), ホスピス (hosupisu) (Japanese), хоспис (xospis) (Kazakh), 호스피스 (hoseupiseu) (Korean), хоспис (hospis) (Kyrgyz), hospicjum [neuter] (Polish), хо́спис (xóspis) [masculine] (Russian), hospic (Slovene), hospicio [masculine] (Spanish), hospis [neuter] (Swedish), hospice [neuter] (Swedish), สถานดูแลระยะสุดท้าย (sàtăan doolae ráyá sùttáai) (Thai), hosbis [feminine] (Welsh) Translations (provision of palliative care for the terminally ill): hospies (Afrikaans), hospitium (Afrikaans), хоспис (hospis) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 臨終關懷 (Chinese Mandarin), 临终关怀 (línzhōng guānhuái) (Chinese Mandarin), saattohoito (Finnish), hospice [masculine] (French), Hospizdienst [masculine] (German), hospis (Indonesian), ospís [feminine] (Irish), ospizio [masculine] (Italian), casa di cura (Italian), hospis (Malay), خستهخانه (xaste-xâne) (Persian), cuidados paliativos [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), hosbis [feminine] (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill': 2 46 52 Disambiguation of 'provision of palliative care for the terminally ill': 3 51 46

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          "text": "With the emergence of the modern hospice movement and its institutionalization in the 1970s, however, the religious dimension of hospice moved considerably away from its Christian roots. While it is widely agreed that hospice ought to be concerned with the spiritual needs of the dying, how to do this in a pluralistic society is far from clear.",
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          "text": "With the emergence of the modern hospice movement and its institutionalization in the 1970s, however, the religious dimension of hospice moved considerably away from its Christian roots. While it is widely agreed that hospice ought to be concerned with the spiritual needs of the dying, how to do this in a pluralistic society is far from clear.",
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        [
          "palliative",
          "palliative"
        ],
        [
          "terminally",
          "terminally"
        ],
        [
          "ill",
          "ill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Robert J. Buchanan, James D. Minor, Legal Aspects of Health Care Reimbursement, page 97:",
          "text": "Medicare reimbursement of hospice care is likely to be affected by the apparent reluctance of hospices to participate in the Medicare program.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Andrea Fontana, Jennifer Reid Keene, Death and Dying in America, page 36:",
          "text": "A small number of hospices were opened in the US in the 1890s, but these institutions differed from the hospices that came into being in the second part of the twentieth century in the following ways.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, June L. Leishman, “Chapter 6: Developments in end-of-life care”, in June Leishman, editor, Perspectives on Death and Dying, page 87:",
          "text": "St Joseph's Hospice Association in Liverpool supports hospices in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Peru, as well as having links with hospices in India, Pakistan and Mexico that bear the same name.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑspɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɒspɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(US) -ɑspɪs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospies"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospitium"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hospis",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хоспис"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "臨終關懷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "línzhōng guānhuái",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "临终关怀"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "saattohoito"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hospice"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hospizdienst"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ospís"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ospizio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "casa di cura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xaste-xâne",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "خستهخانه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "cuidados paliativos"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "provision of palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hosbis"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospies"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospitium"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hospis",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хоспис"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hospici"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casa de beneficència"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "安養院"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ānyǎngyuàn",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "安养院"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospice"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "saattokoti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hospice"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hospiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ásylo aniáton",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "άσυλο ανιάτων"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hóspis",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "הוספיס"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "merkáz letipúl tomékh",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מרכז לטיפול תומך"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ospís"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "ospizio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "casa di cura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hosupisu",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "ホスピス"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "xospis",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "хоспис"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hoseupiseu",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "호스피스"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "hospis",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "хоспис"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hospicjum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "note": "clínica/casa/hospital/instituição/unidade de cuidados paliativos",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xóspis",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хо́спис"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "hospic"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hospicio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hospis"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hospice"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sàtăan doolae ráyá sùttáai",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "word": "สถานดูแลระยะสุดท้าย"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hosbis"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hospice"
}

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