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asylum

/əˈsʌɪləm

noun

1 [mass noun] (also political asylum) The protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee: she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status [as modifier]: his asylum application was refused...

In June 2004 the Home Office refused to grant him asylum and was going to send him back to Iran.
Each year, a smaller proportion of asylum applications is being granted.
Rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, but rape victims are rarely granted asylum.

1.1Shelter or protection from danger: we provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves

Synonyms

refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safety, safe keeping, protection, security, immunity;

haven, safe haven, retreat, sanctum, harbour, port in a storm, oasis;

safe house, fastness, hideaway, hideout, bolt-hole, foxhole, hiding place, den

2 dated An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill: he’d been committed to an asylum...

Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives.
We should have institutions and asylums where we can put those people and care for them, and where they are protected from society and society is protected from them.
Once upon a time there were big Victorian asylums where the mentally ill were institutionalised.

Synonyms

psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution

informal madhouse, nuthouse, loony bin, funny farm

North American informal bughouse, booby hatch

dated lunatic asylum

archaic bedlam

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'place of refuge', especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon 'refuge', from asulos 'inviolable', from a- 'without' + sulon 'right of seizure'. Current senses date from the 18th century.

At first an asylum was a ‘place of refuge, especially for criminals’; it came via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, from a- ‘without’, and sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses referring to political refuge or to an institution for the mentally ill, date from the 18th century.

单词	asylum
释义	asylum /əˈsʌɪləm / noun 1 [mass noun] (also political asylum) The protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee: she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status [as modifier]: his asylum application was refused... In June 2004 the Home Office refused to grant him asylum and was going to send him back to Iran. Each year, a smaller proportion of asylum applications is being granted. Rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, but rape victims are rarely granted asylum. 1.1Shelter or protection from danger: we provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves Synonyms refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safety, safe keeping, protection, security, immunity; haven, safe haven, retreat, sanctum, harbour, port in a storm, oasis; safe house, fastness, hideaway, hideout, bolt-hole, foxhole, hiding place, den 2 dated An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill: he’d been committed to an asylum... Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives. We should have institutions and asylums where we can put those people and care for them, and where they are protected from society and society is protected from them. Once upon a time there were big Victorian asylums where the mentally ill were institutionalised. Synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution informal madhouse, nuthouse, loony bin, funny farm North American informal bughouse, booby hatch dated lunatic asylum archaic bedlam Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'place of refuge', especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon 'refuge', from asulos 'inviolable', from a- 'without' + sulon 'right of seizure'. Current senses date from the 18th century. At first an asylum was a ‘place of refuge, especially for criminals’; it came via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, from a- ‘without’, and sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses referring to political refuge or to an institution for the mentally ill, date from the 18th century. Rhymes hilum, phylum, whilom
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