lazaret means synonym of lazaretto.; A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
lazaret is pronounced /ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/.
Why “lazaret” is a great word
LAZARET — [Noun] A building, ship, or designated area used for the quarantine or long-term isolation of people with infectious diseases, especially leprosy or plague. Borrowed from French lazaret, from Italian lazzareto, lazzaretto, lazzeretto, derived from the name Lazarus, a biblical figure associated with disease and poverty, and ultimately from Hebrew Eleazar ('God has helped'). Unlike a sanatorium, which implies a hopeful regimen of treatment, or a quarantine, which names the temporary act of separation, a lazaret is the permanent architecture of exile—a stone hut on a windswept island, a derelict hulk anchored in the harbor's grey mist, a chalk-marked door in a sun-bleached alley. It is built not for cure but for containment, the solid geometry of our oldest fear made manifest in mortar and timber.
noun
- Synonym of lazaretto.; A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.“But the civilising was so complete that the survivors of the original inhabitants numbered seven, of whom two were dying of consumption in the Native Compound, three confined in the Native Lazaret with leprosy, the rest, a man and a woman, living in a gunyah at the remote end of Devilfish Bay, subsisting on what food they could get from the bush and the sea and what they could buy with the pennies”
- Synonym of lazaretto.; A building such as a hospital, or occasionally a ship, used to isolate sick people to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; a quarantine.“The liver is the lazaret of bile, / But very rarely executes its function”
- Synonym of lazaretto.; A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.