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Definition: Infirmary |
InfirmaryNoun1. A health facility where patients receive treatment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "infirmary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily enemies who will cause you much worry. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: InfirmarySynonym: hospital (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Hospital, infirmary; pesthouse, lazarhouse; lazaretto; lock hospital; maison de sante; ambulance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Infirmary |
| English words defined with "infirmary": Fermerere ♦ In patient, Infirmarian, Infirmaries, Infirmatory ♦ Out patient. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "infirmary": FIRST-AID ATTENDANT ♦ Infirmary ♦ nurse, first aid ♦ Section 516 grants. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "infirmary": Fermerere. (references) |
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Screenplays | We tried to get him into the infirmary, he's just heavy. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Song Titles | St. James Infirmary (performing artist: Howie and the Heathens) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Excited Ward, Infirmary, and Observation Ward, Boston Insane Hospital.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Infirmary Ward - Department for Men.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Five women working in the diet kitchen of Cowell Hospital, student infirmary on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Students undergoing minor treatment and various tests necessary for diagnosis in the dispensary of Cowell Hospital, student infirmary on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Infirmary, Cornell University.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Child Memorial Infirmary, Adirondack Cottage Sanatarium, Saranac Lake, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro flood refugee in the Red Cross temporary infirmary of Forrest City, Arkansas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sick flood refugee in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at Forrest City, Arkansas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Residence Halls, Arlington Farms, Arlington, Virginia. Infirmary foyer.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elmira Holding and Reconsignment Point, Elmira, New York. Administration, infirmary and guard barracks.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She still remained in the infirmary. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Brother Michael was standing at the door of the infirmary and from the door of the dark cabinet on his right came a smell like medicine. |
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Human Rights | Djibouti | Medical care is inadequate, and the prison infirmary lacks sufficient medication. (references) |
Togo | Sick prisoners reportedly have to pay $2 (1,500 CFA francs) to guards before being allowed to visit the infirmary. (references) | |
Portugal | An NGO reported that outside guards sometimes entered a prison at night, rounded up prisoners, and beat them in the infirmary. (references) | |
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Julie Andrews | Somewhere in the world indeed they are in Boston, at Boston Mass, that wonderful eye-ear infirmary that they have there at the hospital. They are doing phenomenal work. I am helping them spear head it and research it. |
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| "Infirmary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.52% of the time. "Infirmary" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 51.52% | 170 | 23,898 |
| Noun (proper) | 48.48% | 160 | 24,760 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "infirmary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | infermieri (sick bay, sickroom), spital (clearing station, hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستشفى (hospital), المشفى, دار العجزة (old age hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лазарет (sick bay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 医疗所 (Infirmaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ošetřovna (dispensary, emergency room), nemocnice (hospice, hospital, lazaret, lazaretto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sygehus (clinic, hospital, hospital clinic, hospital institution), sygeafdeling, hospital (clinic, hospital, hospital clinic, hospital institution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ziekenkamer (patients'room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | درمانگاه یابیمارستان کوچک , درمانگاه (Clinic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sairaala (field hospital, hospital, nursing home, sick-bay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | infirmerie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krankenhaus (clinic, hospital, hospital clinic, hospital institution), Spital (hospital, Spital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιατρείο (consulting room, dispensary, sanatorium, sanitarium, surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בית חולים צבאי, בית חולים (hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kórház (hospital, hospital for inpatients), betegszoba (sick-bay, sickroom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rumah sakit (asylum, clinic, hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | infermeria (sanatorium, sanitarium, sickbay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 病舎 (hospital, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びょうしゃ (depiction, description, hospital, portrayal, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부속진료소 (Infirmaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thie errey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sykehus (hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infirmaryay hospital (clinic, hospital, hospital administration, hospital clinic, hospital institution, lazaretto, medical institution), enfermo (diseased, ill, ill founded, invalid, sick, sick person, sickly, unhealthy, weak-kneed, weakly), enfermaria (infirmity, ward). (various references) infirmerie (sanatorium, sick-ward), bolniţã. (various references) лазарет (spital). (various references) ambulanta (first aid station, policlinic). (various references) enfermería (dispensary, nursing, sanatorium, sick bay, sickbay). (various references) sjukhus (hospital). (various references) revir (bay, sanatorium, sick bay, sick berth, sickroom), hastane (butcher shop, hospital). (various references) ізолятор (insulator, isolator, non conductor, quarantine, sanatorium), лазарет (hospital). (various references) nh thương (nursing home), bệnh xá (nursing home, policlinic), bệnh viện (chaplain, contractor, hospital, latrine). (various references) clafdy (hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infirmus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Infirmary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enfermera, infermiere, Infimary, infirma, infirmaty, Infirmay, infirmiry, infurmarey, ionfirmary, nfirmary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "infirmary" (pronounced i'nfer"merē) |
| 3 | -m er ē | armory, creamery, Emery, mammary, memory, summary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-m-n-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: firman, friary, infamy, infirm, minify, ramify, rarify. | |
-4 letters: animi, fairy, firry, friar, inarm, infra, marry, rainy. | |
-5 letters: airn, airy, amin, amir, army, ayin, fain, fair, farm, fiar, firm, firn, fray, inia, main, mair, many, mina, mini, miri, miry, myna, naif, nary, rain, rami, rani, rimy, yarn, yirr. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-m-n-r-r-y" | |
+4 letters: informatorily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 69 72 6D 61 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01101001 01110010 01101101 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f i r m a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 0069 0072 006D 0061 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438072758479678491 |
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