mental home

Questions about mental home

What does mental home mean?

mental home means "a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person".

What is another word for mental home?

Close synonyms include mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, insane asylum. 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 mental home a common word?

mental home is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.