asylum
Meaning of asylum
noun
- A place of safety.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
- A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Information about asylum
- It is a name.
- The plural form of asylum is: asylums.
- Languages in which asylum is used:
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Hyphenation of asylum
asy-lum
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- asylum is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
asylum synonyms
Meaning refuge:
Meaning mental hospital:
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Translation of asylum
- Spanish: refugio, asilo, santuario
- Italian: rifugio, asilo
- French: asile, refuge, sanctuaire, retraite
- German: Asyl, Zuflucht, Zufluchtsort
- Portuguese: asilo, refúgio
Words that rhyme with asylum
diachylum, phylum, subphylum, superphylum, amylum, paramylum, acrodactylum, hypodactylum, peristylum, dodecadactylum, Citharexylum, Erythroxylum, Xanthoxylum, Zanthoxylum, erythroxylum, haematoxylum, zanthoxylum
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