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noun
A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: psychiatric hospital
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hospital, infirmary
Narrower terms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
History
Piecewise doublet of mental hotel.
Across languages
117 source translations are retained for this English entry.
