What is the meaning of asylum?

A shelter from danger or hardship.
- synonyms: refuge, sanctuary
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.
- synonyms: mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum

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