ASYLUMS meaning: Institutions for care or confinement

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asylums: Merriam-Webster
asylums: Collins English Dictionary
asylums: Vocabulary.com
Asylum's, Asylums, asylums: Wordnik
asylums: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
asylums: Wiktionary
Asylums, asylums: Dictionary.com
asylums: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Asylums (book), Asylums: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Asylums: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
asylums: FreeDictionary.org
Asylums: TheFreeDictionary.com
Asylums: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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asylums: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
Asylums: Legal dictionary

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Asylums: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

asylums: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Asylums: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Asylums)

▸ noun: Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 collection of four essays by the sociologist Erving Goffman.

Types:

mental hospital, psychiatric ward, psychiatric unit, psychiatric clinic, psychiatric center, more...

Phrases:

lunatic asylums, insane asylums, mental asylums, foundling asylums, asylums and care for the insane, more...

Adjectives:

lunatic, insane, orphan, private, public, mental, various, inebriate, infant, english, blind

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