Asylum and School

Asylum

Asylum noun - A place where insane people are cared for.

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School and asylum are semantically related. In some cases you can use "School" instead a noun "Asylum".

School noun - A place or establishment for teaching and learning.

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Asylum and school are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Asylum" instead a noun "School".

old	old asylum	old school
full	full asylum	full school
special	special asylum	special school
normal	normal asylum	normal school
Other adjectives: complete, original, small, actual, entire, real, large, private, early, abandoned, former, military, haunted, titular, local, nearby, modern, eponymous.

Jeremiah Arkham in The Joker Blogs looks too young to have even finished medical school, let alone be married and running his family's asylum.

Source: Improbable Age
Lewis's first boarding school was run by a headmaster named Robert "Oldie" Capron who was a literal sadist, and who was eventually committed to an insane asylum.

Source: Sadist Teacher
An episode of Ghost Whisperer had a former insane asylum that was being turned into a school.

Source: Bedlam House

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