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Asylum

əˈsʌɪləm

Asylum definitions
noun
asylum asylums
  1. 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"

    • shelter or protection from danger

      "we provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves"

  2. an institution for the care of people with mental illness

    "he'd been committed to an asylum"

    psychiatric hospital psychiatric unit hospital home institution