- gradually recovering health after illness
- of or having to do with convalescence: a convalescent diet
Origin of convalescent
from Classical Latin convalescens a person who is convalescing
adjective
- The definition of convalescent is someone recovering from an illness or something related to rest and recovery.
A nursing home where people go to rehabilitate after a stroke or after an injury is an example of a home that would be described as a convalescent home.
- Convalescent is defined as a person who is recovering from an illness or undergoing a period of rest and recovery.
A person who has just had a stroke and who is now in a nursing home recovering and rehabilitating is an example of a convalescent.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- Recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness.
- Of convalescence or convalescents (see below).
Noun
(plural convalescents)
- A person recovering from illness.
- I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.
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Sentence Examples
- The patient should continue to take about 100 grains a day for at least a fortnight after he is apparently convalescent, otherwise a recrudescence is very probable.
- On a site of three acres stands the convalescent home of the Norfolk and Norwich hospital.
- A convalescent home (1872) commemorates the recovery from illness of King Edward VII.
- The infirmary convalescents are sent to the convalescent house in Corstorphine.
- On the "farm" the city maintains an "infirmary village," a tuberculosis sanatorium, a detention hospital, a convalescent hospital and houses of correction.
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WORDS NEAR convalescent IN THE DICTIONARY
- convalescent
- convalescence
- convalescences
- convalescencies