asylum
IPA: ʌsˈaɪɫʌm
noun
- A place of safety or refuge.
- The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
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Examples of "asylum" in Sentences
- Life in the asylum drains the diarist.
- He was granted asylum in the Netherlands.
- The area of the asylum is known as The Ridges.
- The story takes place in a labyrinthine asylum.
- The asylum was opened in 1831 to house pauper lunatics.
- The asylum was rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy.
- Asylum for Loons is the true name of the madhouse in the film.
- The band seems to be an illusion compared to the insanity in the asylum.
- Randall then searches the asylum and is horrified to discover the foetuses.
- The young woman had recoiled from the word "asylum", and her reasons became clear.
- Samantha Haque: Do you think that there's a danger that Andre's case trivializes the term asylum seeker?
- I think, if anything, it's causing people to look at the term asylum and put it in a 21st century defenition
- Asylum seekers arriving by plane do not attract the same attention, nor what refugee groups would call the same paranoiac reaction.
- It stars a few recognisable names and is getting quite a bit of praise for the comical yet relevant look at the people behind the term asylum seekers.
- They didn’t do this for other immigrants, but the word asylum has a strong, almost spiritual pull to it, suggesting suffering in a way that the word guest worker does not.
- So from that came the idea of the universe turned inside out, if you like - he built this house to enclose the universe, which he called the asylum, and he really thought that was what the universe should be put into, an asylum, and that he would live outside the asylum and look after it.