asylum Význam & definícia

Význam asylum v slovenčine

• 0 protection or safety, especially that given by a government to people who have been forced to leave their own countries for their safety or because of war:

  • to seek/apply for political asylum

• 1 a hospital for people with mental illnesses:

  • a lunatic asylum

• 2 protection or safety, or a protected and safe place, given esp. to someone who has left a country or place for political reasons:

  • The refugees have asked for political asylum.

• 3 a mental hospital, or any other institution giving shelter and other help to poor or suffering people:

  • He was committed to an insane asylum in 1899.