Synonyms for asylum
Most common
shelter sanctuary refuge mental hospital psychiatric hospital grith
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Mental hospital
mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, hospital, mental institution informal, institution, insane asylum dated
Definitions
- n. 1
A place of safety or refuge.
- n. 2
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
Related words
- Phrases
- insane asylum lunatic asylum
Forms
- Plural
- asylums → sanctuaries, refuges, shelters, harbors…
Example sentences
- shelter Tom volunteers at a homeless shelter twice a week.
- sanctuary The sanctuary is before; and the thief, behind.
- refuge Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
By length
- 4 letters
- home1
- 5 letters
- haven2, grith
- 6 letters
- harbor2, refuge2, covert2
- 7 letters
- shelter2, harbour2
- 8 letters
- hospital3
- 9 letters
- sanctuary4
- 11 letters
- institution4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (haven2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- asile
- Italiano
- asilo
- Español
- asilo
- Deutsch
- Zufluchtsstätte
- Català
- asil