hospice

noun
🔊/ˈhɒspɪs/
🔊/ˈhɑːspɪs/
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  1. a hospital for people who are dying临终安养院
    • She founded an AIDS hospice with the help of a local doctor.在当地一名医生的帮助下,她为艾滋病人建立了一个临终安养院。
    Extra Examples
    • I work as a volunteer at the local children's hospice.我在当地的儿童收容所做志愿者。
    • She died in a hospice.她死于临终关怀。
    • to make a donation to the hospice movement为临终关怀运动捐款
    Topics Buildingsc2, Medicinec2
    Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, from Latin hospitium, from hospes, hospit- ‘host, guest’.