Madhouse

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  • noun. An institution for the mentally ill.
  • noun. A place of great disorder and confusion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A house where insane persons are confined for cure or for restraint; a lunatic asylum; a bedlam.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.
  • noun. A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation.
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  • noun. A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum
  • noun. A place exhibiting stereotypical characteristics of such a house.
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  • noun. pejorative terms for an insane asylum
    • Word Usage
    "The madhouse was the old Manor House in Clerkenwell which had belonged to the Earls of Northampton."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    asylum  insane asylum  institution  mental home  mental hospital  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    almshouse  andoil  annexe  babel  bedlam  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    asylum  bedlam  booby hatch  crazy house  cuckoo's nest  
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