1. A shelter from danger or hardship
   - refuge, sanctuary 
2. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
   - mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum

Derived forms: asylums

Type of: hospital, infirmary, shelter

Encyclopedia: Asylum

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