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Asylum
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asylum
n.
shelter, refuge; hospital for the mentally ill
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Asylum
Asylum may refer to:
Kinds of asylum
- Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
- Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
- Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple
- Insane asylum or lunatic asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing those deemed insane: see History of psychiatric institutions
- Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
- Right of asylum or political asylum
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asylum
Noun
1. a shelter from danger or hardship
(synonym) refuge, sanctuary
(hypernym) shelter
(hyponym) harbor, harbour
2. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
(synonym) mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum
(hypernym) hospital, infirmary
(hyponym) Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
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asylum
n.
azyl; psychiatrická léčebna
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asylum
Rzecz.
azyl polityczny; zakład dla psychicznie chorych
