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asylum

noun
/əˈsaɪləm/

Etymology

From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).

  1. derived from ἄσυλον
  2. borrowed from asylum

Definitions

  1. A place of safety or refuge.

  2. The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for…

    The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).

  3. A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged,…

    A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. to place in an asylum

      • It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.

    2. to grant protection or refuge

      • We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.

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Derived

asylee, asylophobic, asylum hotel, asylumlike, asylum seeker, asylum shopping, insane asylum, khia asylum, lunatic asylum, lunatics have taken over the asylum, Magdalene asylum, mental asylum, orphan asylum, political asylum

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at asylum. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at asylum. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at asylum

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA