HOSPITALLER

n.[from hospital. ] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims. They were called knights of St. John, and are the same as the knights of Malta.

hospitaller

hos pi tal ler ▶noun British spelling of hospitaler.

hospitaller

hospitaller |ˈhɒspɪt (ə )lə |(US hospitaler ) ▶noun a member of a charitable religious order, originally the Knights Hospitaller. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French hospitalier, from medieval Latin hospitalarius, from hospitale (see hospital ).