English Dictionary

lazaret

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌlæzəˈɹɛt/

名詞

歴史的 未分類 比喩的用法

(historical) A place reserved for people with infectious diseases (especially leprosy or plague) to live on a long-term basis.

日本語の意味

伝染病（特にハンセン病やペストなど）の患者が長期間滞在するために設けられた歴史的な隔離施設

During the 14th-century outbreak, the port authorities established a lazaret on the island to isolate the afflicted for years.

14世紀の大流行の際、港の当局は島に隔離療養所を設け、罹患した人々を何年も隔離しました。

意味（1）

(historical) 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 the man earned by doing odd jobs and the woman by prostitution.

意味（2）

(historical, also figuratively) 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

意味（3）

(nautical) A place at the front of the tweendecks of a merchant ship where provisions are stored.

lazarets （ plural ）