| NOUN | artifact | mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
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| Meaning | A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. | |
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| Synonyms | psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum | |
| Narrower | Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
| Broader | hospital, infirmary | A health facility where patients receive treatment |
| Spanish | hospital psiquiátrico, manicomio, psiquiátrico, siquiátrico | |
| Catalan | hospital psiquiàtric, manicomi, psiquiàtric | |
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