Usually means: Protection granted to foreign refugees.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. asylum: Merriam-Webster
  2. asylum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asylum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asylum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asylum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asylum, asylum: Wordnik
  7. asylum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. asylum: Wiktionary
  9. asylum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. asylum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. asylum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. asylum: Dictionary.com
  13. asylum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. asylum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Asylum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. asylum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. asylum: Rhymezone
  19. asylum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. asylum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. asylum: FreeDictionary.org
  22. asylum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. asylum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. asylum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Asylum (Supertramp song), Asylum (McGrath novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. asylum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. asylum: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ASYLUM: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. asylum: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. asylum: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Asylum (video game), asylum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Asylum (video game), asylum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. asylum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Asylum (video game), asylum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Asylum: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See asylums as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A place of safety or refuge.
noun:  The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
noun:  (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

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