asylums
- 1Plural of asylum.
Several state asylums were converted into hospitals after reforms in mental health care.
Nineteenth-century reformers pushed states to build public asylums for the mentally ill.
Note
A regular -s plural, but only some meanings of asylum can take it. Places can be counted, so havens of safety and the institutions once built for the mentally ill were asylums, though that institutional use now sounds dated. The legal protection cannot be counted. Refugees seek or are granted asylum, not asylums, and a plural here always points to the places rather than the status.
asylums is a form of asylum
asylum, noun: The physical and legal protection given by a place of safety, especially to political refugees. Full entry
- Spelling
- asylum → asylums: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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