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Asylum

/əˈsaɪləm/

A place of safety.

📖 Definitions of "Asylum"

noun
  1. 1

    A place of safety.

  2. 2

    The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.

  3. 3

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

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