hospital ship


noun
  1. a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.

Origin of hospital ship

1
First recorded in 1675–85

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How to use hospital ship in a sentence

  • One had no sooner received its melancholy freight, than it left the islets, on its way to the hospital-ship of the fleet.

    The Wing-and-Wing | J. Fenimore Cooper