hospice
pronunciation
How to pronounce hospice in British English:
UK [ˈhɒspɪs]
How to pronounce hospice in American English:
US [ˈhɑspɪs]
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- Noun:
- a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)
- a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
Word Origin
- hospice (n.)
- 1818, "rest house for travelers," from French hospice (13c.), from Latin hospitium "guest house, hospitality," from hospes (genitive hospitis) "guest, host" (see host (n.1)). Sense of "home for the aged and terminally ill " is from 1893; hospice movement first attested 1979.
Example
- 1. A hospice nurse hung a blue light on the outside of his hospital door .
- 2. Helping people to confront the reality of death is rightly seen as one of the hospice movement 's biggest feats .
- 3. And with one long last look , I turned and left the hospice .
- 4. When jim hawkins of children 's hospice international nominated mattie as a hero on this web site , the young poet hero was only six years old and had already written several hundred poems .
- 5. By then , mrs. mcdaniel 's body was ravaged by the cancer and her treatments . She had entered hospice care , with a hospital bed in her home and a nurse and an assistant to help .