wardnoun [ C ]
uk/wɔːd/us/wɔːrd/ward noun [ C ] (HOSPITAL/PRISON)
B2 one of the parts or large rooms into which a hospital is divided, usually with beds for patients:
US one of the parts into which a prison is divided
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- The ward was full of children infected with TB.
- She works in the geriatric ward.
- Two hospital wards have had to be closed for fumigation.
- The new ward was opened by the Prince of Wales.
- The emergency wards are full of casualties from the crash.
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Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- emergency room
- ENT
- er
- health maintenance organization
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- surgery
- the funny farm
- theatre
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ward noun [ C ] (CITY AREA)
(in many countries) one of the areas into which a city or town is divided, having its own elected political representative or its own organizations for managing services
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UK politics: local government & politics
- alderman
- authority
- borough
- canton
- city council
- city fathers
- city hall
- councilman
- councilwoman
- county borough
- county council
- development area
- enterprise zone
- municipality
- parish council
- parochial
- prefecture
- principal area
- shire
- South Yorkshire
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ward noun [ C ] (CHILD)
specialized law a person, especially a child, who is legally put under the protection of a law court or a guardian:
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Parents & children
- babyhood
- bastard
- child abuse
- child-friendly
- conjoined twins
- identical twin
- illegitimate
- latchkey kid
- love child
- motherhood
- motherless
- parenthood
- patter
- quad
- quadruplet
- quintuplet
- sextuplet
- tug of love
- twin
- without issue idiom
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