asylum

About 3.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A place of safety or refuge.
2. noun The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
3. noun A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
4. verb to place in an asylum
5. verb to grant protection or refuge

Similar words

sanctuary refuge mental hospital insane asylum mental institution psychiatric hospital mental home shelter sheltering sheltered

Often followed by

in for seekers and to of at was is

Word family

asylums