What are some alternative words for asylum?
Synonyms for asylum
əˈsaɪ ləm
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term asylum.
Princeton's WordNet
refuge, sanctuary, asylum(noun)
a shelter from danger or hardship
Synonyms:
insane asylum, chancel, sanctuary, resort, mental institution, mental hospital, bema, institution, recourse, refuge, psychiatric hospital, mental home, safetymental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum(noun)
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Synonyms:
foundation, mental home, instauration, creation, psychiatric hospital, sanctuary, mental hospital, refuge, insane asylum, mental institution, institution, founding, innovation, initiation, origination, introduction, establishment
Wiktionary
asylum(noun)
asylum(noun)
A place of safety
asylum(noun)
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
asylum(noun)
A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
asylum(n.)
Synonyms:
sanctuary, shelter, retreat, refuge, place of refugeasylum(n.)
Synonyms:
charitable institution
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "asylum":
refuge, resorting, resort, haven, recourse, sanctuary, asylum-, refugee, asylum-seekers, asylum-seeker, nuthouse, sheltered, shelter, madhouse, asylum-seeking
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Asylum":
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
---|---|---|
#714 | safety | |
#1250 | foundation | |
#1338 | introduction | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2710 | creation | |
#3146 | institution | |
#3936 | innovation | |
#4542 | establishment | |
#5932 | haven | |
#6682 | shelter | |
#9989 | asylum | |
#10367 | founding | |
#10384 | sanctuary | |
#11221 | refugee | |
#11736 | refuge | |
#11830 | initiation | |
#22309 | sheltered | |
#22849 | recourse | |
#27200 | origination | |
#39281 | resorting | |
#68065 | chancel | |
#74005 | madhouse | |
#136516 | nuthouse | |
#139227 | bema |
How to use asylum in a sentence?
It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers, but that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly.
The majority of people coming to the United States seeking asylum are coming with little more than the shirts on their back.
At the moment that they finally thought they had reached safety, refuge, were going to petition for asylum, they were taken from their parents, and are now in Tornillo with no idea when or if they will see their mothers or their fathers on this Father's Day again.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere:
They go on strike because they don't like the accommodation and they cause trouble because they don't like the food. They beat each other in the facilities for asylum seekers, that's still a minority at the moment but we have to say clearly that whoever comes to Germany ... must allow themselves to be distributed to wherever we send them, take part in a fair process and respect our legal system.
For our asylum seekers, for DACA( Temporary Protected Status) recipients, for all our clients looking for a fair shake before USCIS or EOIR, this is everything.
Translations for asylum
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- ملجأ, لجوء, حق اللجوء السياسيArabic
- прытулакBelarusian
- убежище, лудницаBulgarian
- asilCatalan, Valencian
- útočiště, azylCzech
- asylDanish
- Asyl, psychiatrische AnstaltGerman
- άσυλοGreek
- aziloEsperanto
- santuario, manicomio, asiloSpanish
- پناهندگیPersian
- turvapaikka, mielisairaalaFinnish
- asile psychiatrique, asileFrench
- gealtlannIrish
- הקדש, מדיניHebrew
- elmegyógyintézetHungarian
- asilum, suakaIndonesian
- asilo, manicomioItalian
- 避難所, 養護施設, アジールJapanese
- ទីជ្រកកោន, បដិសរណដ្ឋានKhmer
- manikomju, refuġjuMaltese
- psychiatrische instelling, asielDutch
- asylNorwegian
- azylPolish
- asiloPortuguese
- sanctuar, azil, adăpostRomanian
- убежище, психиатрическая больницаRussian
- azil, utočište, уточиште, азилSerbo-Croatian
- azylSlovak
- azilSlovene
- asylSwedish
- притулокUkrainian
- 避难所Chinese
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