asylum

Other forms of asylum

plural

asylums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asylum

What does asylum mean?

asylum means "a shelter from danger or hardship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asylum?

asylum has 3 syllables: a-sy-lum. The stress falls on "sy". In IPA it is /əˈsaɪləm/.

What is another word for asylum?

Close synonyms include refuge, sanctuary, mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asylum a common word?

asylum is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.