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noun
A psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, 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
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