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Definition: ASYLUMS |
ASYLUMSPlural1. Of Asylum |
Date "ASYLUMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: ASYLUMSSynonyms: Benevolent institutions, Charitable institutions, Homes (Institutions). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ASYLUMS |
| Etymologies containing "ASYLUMS": Asylum. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | India | Following the fire, the government of Tamil Nadu ordered the closure of all unlicensed medical asylums in the state. (references) |
Brazil | In June 2000, the Chamber of Deputies' Human Rights Commission released the report of its investigation into the conditions of mental hospitals and asylums. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ASYLUMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "ASYLUMS" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.06% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ASYLUMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | æ"¶å®¹æ‰€ (Asylum). (various references) | ||||
German | Heime. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 보호 시설 (Asylum). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | asylumsay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"ASYLUMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amylum, Anselmus, asellus, aslylum, aslyum, assylum, asylam, asylem, asyllum, asylm, asylom, asylym, ayllus, aylum, Dascyllus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alyssum. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: asylum. | |
-2 letters: alums, amyls, lyssa, massy, mauls, mussy, sauls, slams, slays, slums. | |
-3 letters: alms, alum, amus, amyl, lams, lass, lays, lums, mass, maul, mays, muss, sals, saul, says, slam, slay, slum, sums, yams. | |
-4 letters: als, amu, ass, ays, lam, las, lay, lum, mas, may, mus, sal, sau, say, sly, sum, yam, yum. | |
-5 letters: al, am. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-s-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: alyssums. | |
+2 letters: assumably. | |
+4 letters: squeamishly, subassembly, sympetalous. | |
+5 letters: abstemiously, assumability. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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