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asylums
We have found lemma(root) word of asylums : asylum.
Definitions
[əˈsʌɪləm], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee
(e.g: she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status)
- an institution for the care of people with mental illness
(e.g: he'd been committed to an asylum)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘place of refuge’, especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, from asulos ‘inviolable’, from a- ‘without’ + sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses date from the 18th century
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