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Definition: Insane Asylum |
Insane AsylumNoun1. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Insane AsylumSynonyms: asylum (n), institution (n), mental home (n), mental hospital (n), mental institution (n), psychiatric hospital (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Insane Asylum |
| English words defined with "insane asylum": bedlam, booby hatch ♦ crazy house, cuckoo's nest ♦ funny farm, funny house ♦ loony bin ♦ madhouse ♦ nut house, nuthouse ♦ sanatorium, snake pit. (references) |
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Screenplays | No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum. (The Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith) Have you tried the insane asylum where everybody in this room is supposed to be (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) It's an insane asylum! And it's your fault (MASH; writing credit: Ring Lardner Jr.) | |
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 | Insane asylum, Binghamton, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
insane asylum | 123 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "insane asylum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | gekkenhuis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | frenezulejo. (various references) | |
Papiamen | montekristu, montekristo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insaneay asylumay.(various references) | |
Romanian | casã de nebuni (bedlam, bughouse, lunatic asylum, madhouse), azil de nebuni. (various references) | |
Swedish | mentalsjukhus (mental hospital), hospital (asylum, lunatic). (various references) | |
Turkish | akıl hastanesi (asylum, booby hatch, bughouse, funny farm, loony bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental home, mental hospital, nuthouse). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwallgofdy (lunatic asylum, madhouse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-m-n-n-s-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: amanuensis, semiannual. | |
-3 letters: anamnesis, manliness. | |
-4 letters: alanines, aluminas, alumines, amnesias, amylases, analyses, analysis, animuses, insanely, inulases, linesman, malaises, melanian, melanins, nasalise, salesman, sannyasi, seamanly, uneasily. | |
-5 letters: aimless, alanine, alanins, aliases, alumina, alumine, alumins, alumnae, alyssum, amnesia, amusias, amylase, analyse, anemias, animals, anlases, anneals, annuals, asylums, elysian, inanely, innless, inseams, inulase, laminae, laminas, lensman, lineman. | |
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