Search Result for "lazar_house":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy);
[syn: lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lazar \La"zar\, n. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.] A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. [1913 Webster] Lazaret
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lazar house n 1: hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) [syn: lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse]