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Pesthouse

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A hospital for persons infected with the plague, smallpox, or other pestilential disease.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

Word Usage

""Do you know," said Gloriana, as the black-eyed girl finished relating the afternoon's happenings to her, "I half believe that man snooping around the pesthouse is the robber.""

Hypernym

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hospital infirmary

Cross Reference

asylum sanatorium

Synonym

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