asylum

Noun

Meaning

A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

Any place of retreat and security.

An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sanctuary institution refuge shelter psychiatric hospital mental hospital harbor haven cover protection retreat madhouse sanitarium insane asylum mental institution
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Antonyms

attack risk exposure danger momentum detection
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Hypernyms

infirmary hospital shelter

Hyponyms

harbor harbour bedlam sanatorium madhouse snake pit

Phrases with the word

lunatics have taken over the asylum asylum claim application for asylum asylum status military asylum asylum application

Derivatives

asylums asyla

Examples

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Antonin Artaud

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. Roberto Bolaño

Truth finds no asylum. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

asyllabic asyllabical asylophobic asylum applicants asylum application asylum claim