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asylum

/əˈsaɪləm/noun3 syllables

Asylum means: a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.

Synonyms for asylum9

noun, as in a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum

noun, as in a shelter from danger or hardship

refuge, sanctuary

also used for asylum

shelter

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What does asylum mean?2

noun

1

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

2

a shelter from danger or hardship

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Asylum in a sentence

  • Because of the war, many people seek asylum.Ioan_Cristian
  • The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.CM
  • Did you just run away from a mental asylum?Amastan
  • Thousands of people apply for political asylum each year.Source_VOA
  • All of us plan to apply for asylum.CK
  • The majority of the insane asylum was closed down.Amastan
  • Society is an insane asylum run by the inmates.Scott
  • Lukas will probably end up back in the asylum for the things he did.Amastan

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Forms of asylum

as a noun

plural
asylums