asylum

IPA: ʌsˈaɪɫʌm

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.

Examples of "asylum" in Sentences

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
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.