hospitalman

[ hos-pi-tl-muhn ]

noun

, U.S. Navy.

, plural hos·pi·tal·men.

1. an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hospitalman¹

First recorded in 1820–30; hospital + man

Example Sentences

Marines, one Army staff sergeant and one Navy hospitalman slaughtered in a suicide bomber attack at the Kabul airport as they assisted in the effort to evacuate thousands of Afghans who had helped American troops and were escaping retribution from the victorious Taliban insurgents.

From Seattle Times

Employees at Nicolock Paving Stones, a business located in the same office park as the warehouse, assisted one of the wounded sailors, Navy Hospitalman Casey Nutt, 26, of Germantown, Maryland, after he fled the scene of the initial shooting.

From Seattle Times

Hospitalman Henry L. McGill is accused of conspiring with a Marine friend to kidnap McGill’s civilian adult girlfriend near Vista on Sept. 5 and take her to Mexico, according to his charge sheet.

From Los Angeles Times

The magazine chose a face to encapsulate the humanitarian side of American forces, and that face belonged to Hospitalman Second Class Josiah Lucier, 29.

From Time

The investigation into the death of the Marine sergeant and the Navy hospitalman was completed in May and the findings were presented to Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who was in command in Afghanistan at the time.

From Chicago Tribune