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Definition: Lazaret |
LazaretNoun1. Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lazaret" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Synonyms: LazaretSynonyms: lazar house (n), lazarette (n), lazaretto (n), pesthouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lazaret |
| Non-English Usage: "Lazaret" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (lazaret, lazarette), Serbo-Croatian (lazaret, lazaretto). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Transport carts at a Division Lazaret, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Horses at a Division Lazaret, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Shelter tents at a Division Lazaret, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Tents prepared for cold weather at a Division Lazaret, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [A Division Lazaret in a Chinese house, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Personnel at a Veterinary Lazaret, Harbin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [A Veterinary Lazaret, Harbin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Transport carts at a Division Lazaret, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Children | Russia | The St. Petersburg NGO Lazaret has estimated that there are 15,000 to 17,000 local children with some social ties to their family, school, or orphanage who live on the street part-time; 500 to 700 live completely without shelter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "lazaret": Lazaret fever. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lazaret | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lazaret"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spital i izoluar për leprozët (lazaretto, leprosarium), karantinë (lazaretto, quarantine), depo ushqimesh (larder, lazaretto, pantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кораб за карантиране на болни (lazaretto), болница за заразноболни (lazaretto), помещение за склад. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nemocnice (hospice, hospital, infirmary, lazaretto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kórházhajó (hospital ship, lazaretto), vesztegzárhajó (lazaretto), bélpoklos kórház (lazaretto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lazzaretto (lazaretto, leper hospital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | azaretlay lazaret (lazarette). (various references) лепрозорий (lazaretto, leprosarium). (various references) lazaret (lazaretto). (various references) leprasjukhus (lazaretto, leprosarium), karantän (lazaretto, quarantine). (various references) karantina yeri (lazaretto), gemi ambarı (hold, lazaretto), fakir hastanesi (lazaretto). (various references) trại phong nh cách ly (lazaretto), trại hủi (lazaretto, lazar-house, leper house, leprosarium), t u cách ly (lazaretto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lazaret": lazarets, lazarette, lazarettes, lazaretto, lazarettos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-r-t-z" | |
-2 letters: alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, artal, artel, later, lazar, ratal, ratel, reata, talar, taler. | |
-3 letters: alae, alar, area, earl, late, laze, lear, rale, rate, raze, real, tael, tala, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela, tzar, zeal, zeta. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, lez, rat, ret, tae, tar, tea, tel. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-r-t-z" | |
+1 letter: lazarets. | |
+2 letters: catalyzer, lazarette, lazaretto. | |
+3 letters: catalyzers, lateralize, lazarettes, lazarettos, naturalize, tantalizer. | |
+4 letters: amortizable, lateralized, lateralizes, materialize, naturalized, naturalizes, rationalize, realization, satirizable, tantalizers, trailblazer, trapezoidal. | |
+5 letters: acclimatizer, alphabetizer, denaturalize, dramatizable, lateralizing, laterization, materialized, materializer, materializes, nationalizer, rationalized, rationalizer, rationalizes, realizations, recapitalize, spermatozoal, trailblazers, velarization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 7A 61 72 65 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- --.. .- .-. . - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01111010 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a z a r e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 007A 0061 0072 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46679267847186 |
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