Definitions for hospice

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hospice hos·pice

Spelling: [hos-pis]

IPA: /ˈhɒs pɪs/

Hospice is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in hospice (cehiops).

Definitions for hospice

noun

1. a house of shelter or rest for pilgrims, strangers, etc., especially one kept by a religious order.
2. Medicine/Medical. a health-care facility for the terminally ill that emphasizes pain control and emotional support for the patient and family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life. a similar program of care and support for the terminally ill at home.

Origin of hospice

1810-20; French Latin hospitium hospitium

Examples for hospice

He has also demonstrated compassion for AIDS victims, washing and kissing the feet of 12 patients in a hospice in 2001.

He, himself, was billeted with a French family, just around the corner from the hospice.

M. Julien, will you run for the doctor, and send him down to the hospice at once?

The list also includes 14 hospitals, 14 assaults in schools, and even a hospice for the dying.

The next evening, Romero was saying mass in the chapel at the hospice where he lived in a tiny room near the infirm and the dying.

When I was first called and told that George McGovern was in hospice care, I was overwhelmed with sadness.

Thomas J. Foley died Friday in hospice care in Washington at age 84.

In June, 1861, her simple funeral passed from the gates of the hospice.

I found him at the hospice, busy with his œuvre de bienfaisance.

The hospice had formerly been a palstra or wrestling-ground.