Synonyms for asylum
əˈsaɪ ləmasy·lum

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1. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

2. asylumnoun

   A place of safety

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

3. asylumnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   sanctuary, shelter

4. asylumnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   shelter, sanctuary

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. refuge, sanctuary, asylumnoun

   a shelter from danger or hardship

   Synonyms:
   insane asylum, chancel, sanctuary, resort, mental institution, mental hospital, bema, institution, recourse, refuge, psychiatric hospital, mental home, safety

2. mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylumnoun

   a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

   Synonyms:
   foundation, mental home, instauration, creation, psychiatric hospital, sanctuary, mental hospital, refuge, insane asylum, mental institution, institution, founding, innovation, initiation, origination, introduction, establishment

Matched Categories

1. • Hospital
   • Shelter

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   sanctuary, shelter, retreat, refuge, place of refuge

2. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   charitable institution

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1. asylumnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, sanctuary

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1. List of paraphrases for "asylum":

   refuge, resorting, resort, haven, recourse, sanctuary, asylum-, refugee, asylum-seekers, asylum-seeker, nuthouse, sheltered, shelter, madhouse, asylum-seeking

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1. List of known nicknames for "Asylum":

   Lee Johnson, L Double, L. Double

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1. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

   If this rule fully goes into effect, virtually no one who arrived at the southern border would ever be allowed to ask for asylum in the United States.

2. Emmanuel Macron:

   What we're proposing is to have Europe-funded detention centers in the closest and safest country (from the source of the refugee flows), and from these European detention centers... teams should take the people who did not win asylum status back to the country they came from.

3. De Kretser:

   Our harsh and cruel treatment of asylum seekers and refugees is damaging our international reputation and damaging our ability to advance our national interest, whether it's through being elected to the Human Rights Council ... or in other negotiations.

4. Tedjo Edy Purdijatno:

   If Canberra keeps doing things that displease Indonesia, Jakarta will surely let the illegal immigrants go to Australia, there are more than 10,000 [asylum seekers] in Indonesia today. If they are let go to Australia, it will be like a human tsunami.

5. Democracy CEO Rachel Ehrenfeld:

   I ’m not surprised by ICE ruling, especially since it seems several, if not all, lied on their asylum application.