mental institution
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mental institution — noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑mental hospital, ↑psychiatric hospital, ↑institution, ↑mental home, ↑insane asylum, ↑asylum • Derivationally related forms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
mental institution — noun A psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital … Wiktionary
mental institution — n. insane asylum, hospital for the mentally ill people … English contemporary dictionary
mental institution — See asylum; state hospital … Ballentine's law dictionary
mental hospital — [n] psychiatric hospital bughouse*, funny farm*, insane asylum, loony bin*, madhouse*, mental health facility, mental institution, nuthouse*, psychiatric ward, sanatorium; concepts 312,439,516 … New thesaurus
mental home — noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person • Syn: ↑mental hospital, ↑psychiatric hospital, ↑mental institution, ↑institution, ↑insane asylum, ↑asylum • Derivationally related forms: ↑institut … Useful english dictionary
mental hospital — noun a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person • Syn: ↑psychiatric hospital, ↑mental institution, ↑institution, ↑mental home, ↑insane asylum, ↑asylum • Derivationally related forms: ↑institutional … Useful english dictionary
Institution — Sociology … Wikipedia
mental — / mentl/ adjective 1 MIND affecting the mind or happening in the mind: mental health | a child s mental development | mental picture/image (=a picture that you form in your mind): I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description. 2… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
institution — [[t]ɪ̱nstɪtju͟ːʃ(ə)n, AM tu͟ː [/t]] ♦♦ institutions 1) N COUNT: oft in names An institution is a large important organization such as a university, church, or bank. ...the Institution of Civil Engineers... Class size varies from one type of… … English dictionary
