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Noun asylum has 2 senses
- refuge, sanctuary, asylum - a shelter from danger or hardship
--1 is a kind of shelter
--1 has particulars: harbor, harbour; safehold; safe house
- mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
--2 is a kind of hospital, infirmary
--2 has particulars: | | 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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