Asylum

Quick meaning: Asylum is a noun meaning A place of safety or refuge.

Meaning

A place of safety or refuge.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
2. to place in an asylum
3. to grant protection or refuge
4. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

Example Sentences

We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.

It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.

So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

Word Forms

• asylums
• asyla
• asyluming
• asylumed

Synonyms for asylum

Depending on context, synonyms include sanctuary, shelter, refuge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sanctuary, refuge, shelter, sheltering, sheltered, resort.

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