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PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does psychiatric hospital mean?
• PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL (noun)
The noun PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL has 1 sense:
1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Familiarity information: PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
asylum; insane asylum; institution; mental home; mental hospital; mental institution; psychiatric hospital
Hypernyms ("psychiatric hospital" is a kind of...):
hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychiatric hospital"):
Bedlam; booby hatch; crazy house; cuckoo's nest; funny farm; funny house; loony bin; madhouse; nut house; nuthouse; sanatorium; snake pit (pejorative terms for an insane asylum)
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