almoner

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients

From Middle English aumener, aulmener, from Old French almosnier, from almosne (“alms”), from Latin eleemosyna. See alms, Almosen.

Almner, x, 38, almoner, distributer of alms. — Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Edmund Spenser
I think he intends that I shall become his almoner. — Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp, Horatio, Jr. Alger
And how?” “By the queen’s almoner, to whom I am very intimately allied,” said Aramis, coloring. — The three musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

medical social worker

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