Asylums Synonyms

A shelter from danger or hardship
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. safeties
  2. shelters
  3. sanctuaries
  4. refuges
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shelters
  2. sanctuaries
  3. retreats
  4. refuges
  5. havens
  6. institutions
  7. harbors
  8. protections
  9. covers
  10. coverts
An institution that provides care and shelter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shelters
  2. hospitals
  3. homes
A place offering protection and safety; a shelter.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shelters

Asylums Sentence Examples

  • Infant asylums (where the first rudiments of instruction are imparted to children between two and a half and six years of age) and elementary schools have increased in number.

  • Between 1881 and 1898 the chief increases took place in the endowments of hospitals; orphan asylums; infant asylums; poorhouses; almshouses; voluntary workhouses; and institutes for the blind.

  • The least creditably administered of these are the asylums for abandoned infants; in I887, of a total of 23,913, 53.77% died; while during the years 1893-1896 (no later statistics are available) of 117,970 51.72% died.

  • Of the sum spent by the provincial authorities, over half goes to lunatic asylums and over a quarter to the maintenance of foundling hospitals.

  • The cost of fire brigades, infant asylums, evening and holiday schools, is classed as optional expenditure.

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