Asylum and Ward

Asylum

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

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

Ward

Ward noun - Means or method of defending.

Asylum and ward are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Asylum" instead a noun "Ward".

Nearby Words: warden, wardship, warder, warded, wardroom

How words are described

old old asylum old ward
juvenile juvenile asylum juvenile ward
full full asylum full ward
small small asylum small ward
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, dark, isolated, private, mental, abandoned, former, temporary, insane, local, modern.

Both words in one sentence

  • Discworld / Making Money Napoleon Delusion: In the end, Cosmo is taken to a lunatic asylum which has a whole ward full of people who think they're Vetinari.
  • Prison Rape Gillian, now in an insane asylum, promises the very butch female ward (who is staring at her naked) "what she wants" in exchange for a favor.
    Source: Prison Rape
  • Alice Allusion John Carpenter's The Ward, a story set in an insane asylum with a toy rabbit as a plot point, has Alice as the name of a ghost that apparently haunts the asylum but then it is revealed Alice is the protagonist's real name...
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