Home › Words › S › spitalspitalspital · name — A suburb of Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9675).Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologySee spital.nameA suburb of Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9675).An eastern suburb of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3970).A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3483).nounA charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.e.g.“Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]” — 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, sectionDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).