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Definition of asylum in English: asylumnoun əˈsʌɪləməˈsaɪləm 1also political asylummass noun The protection granted by a state to someone who has left their home country as a political refugee. 政治避难 she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status as modifier his asylum application was refused Example sentencesExamples - Denied political asylum and protection, he's now urgently seeking a refugee visa.
- The son of a man sentenced to death in the Yemen fears his life may also be in danger unless he is granted asylum.
- Now she is to go before a panel of Home Office officials to try to persuade them to grant her mother asylum.
- At present, the Secretary of State grants asylum to all such claimants.
- He was granted asylum, grew up in Brighton and applied for British citizenship.
- In June 2004 the Home Office refused to grant him asylum and was going to send him back to Iran.
- It sounds as if, as we heard, he is being granted asylum by the president of Nigeria.
- If asylum is not granted and they are not given refugee status, they may be deported.
- Now living in Glasgow, he has been granted asylum and, at 31, has started anew.
- As for Ghazal, if she were granted asylum she would like to go to school in America.
- The authorities in Dover granted him asylum and he set up home in Bolton.
- Home Office officials believed his story and granted asylum to him and his wife and children.
- He is now staying with friends in Levenshulme and plans to appeal against refusal to grant him asylum.
- Rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, but rape victims are rarely granted asylum.
- Doctors recommended the family be granted asylum on humanitarian grounds.
- They came here seeking political asylum, and now we're at war with the country they're seeking asylum from.
- They spent two years behind bars before they were granted asylum by the courts.
- Some have recently been granted asylum on the basis of having an Irish child.
- Each year, a smaller proportion of asylum applications is being granted.
- Makine was born in Russia but was granted asylum in France in 1987 when he was 30.
- Omar, a Syrian, resides in Britain, which granted him political asylum years ago.
- 1.1 Shelter or protection from danger.
避难所；收容所 we provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves 重病人看护所。 Synonyms refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safety, safe keeping, protection, security, immunity haven, safe haven, retreat, sanctum, harbour, port in a storm, oasis safe house, fastness, hideaway, hideout, bolt-hole, foxhole, hiding place, den
2dated An institution for the care of people who are mentally ill. 〈旧〉精神病院 he'd been committed to an asylum 他被送进精神病院。 Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives.
- Countless schools, hospitals and asylums were built.
- We should have institutions and asylums where we can put those people and care for them, and where they are protected from society and society is protected from them.
- The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
- Once upon a time there were big Victorian asylums where the mentally ill were institutionalised.
- You have to remember that in those days, there were hundreds and hundreds of people confined to mental asylums in appalling conditions with very few treatments available.
Synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution informal madhouse, nuthouse, loony bin, funny farm North American informal bughouse, booby hatch dated lunatic asylum archaic bedlam
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'place of refuge', especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon 'refuge', from asulos 'inviolable', from a- 'without' + sulon 'right of seizure'. Current senses date from the 18th century. At first an asylum was a ‘place of refuge, especially for criminals’; it came via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, from a- ‘without’, and sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses referring to political refuge or to an institution for the mentally ill, date from the 18th century.
Definition of asylum in US English: asylumnounəˈsīləməˈsaɪləm 1also political asylumThe protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee. 政治避难 she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status Example sentencesExamples - Some have recently been granted asylum on the basis of having an Irish child.
- Denied political asylum and protection, he's now urgently seeking a refugee visa.
- He was granted asylum, grew up in Brighton and applied for British citizenship.
- Now living in Glasgow, he has been granted asylum and, at 31, has started anew.
- Now she is to go before a panel of Home Office officials to try to persuade them to grant her mother asylum.
- The son of a man sentenced to death in the Yemen fears his life may also be in danger unless he is granted asylum.
- At present, the Secretary of State grants asylum to all such claimants.
- Makine was born in Russia but was granted asylum in France in 1987 when he was 30.
- Home Office officials believed his story and granted asylum to him and his wife and children.
- They came here seeking political asylum, and now we're at war with the country they're seeking asylum from.
- It sounds as if, as we heard, he is being granted asylum by the president of Nigeria.
- Doctors recommended the family be granted asylum on humanitarian grounds.
- If asylum is not granted and they are not given refugee status, they may be deported.
- Each year, a smaller proportion of asylum applications is being granted.
- They spent two years behind bars before they were granted asylum by the courts.
- In June 2004 the Home Office refused to grant him asylum and was going to send him back to Iran.
- Omar, a Syrian, resides in Britain, which granted him political asylum years ago.
- The authorities in Dover granted him asylum and he set up home in Bolton.
- As for Ghazal, if she were granted asylum she would like to go to school in America.
- Rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, but rape victims are rarely granted asylum.
- He is now staying with friends in Levenshulme and plans to appeal against refusal to grant him asylum.
- 1.1 Shelter or protection from danger.
避难所；收容所 we provide asylum for those too ill to care for themselves 重病人看护所。 Synonyms refuge, sanctuary, shelter, safety, safe keeping, protection, security, immunity
2dated An institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill. 〈旧〉精神病院 he'd been committed to an asylum 他被送进精神病院。 Example sentencesExamples - You have to remember that in those days, there were hundreds and hundreds of people confined to mental asylums in appalling conditions with very few treatments available.
- Countless schools, hospitals and asylums were built.
- The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
- Once upon a time there were big Victorian asylums where the mentally ill were institutionalised.
- We should have institutions and asylums where we can put those people and care for them, and where they are protected from society and society is protected from them.
- Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives.
Synonyms psychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, mental asylum, institution
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘place of refuge’, especially for criminals): via Latin from Greek asulon ‘refuge’, from asulos ‘inviolable’, from a- ‘without’ + sulon ‘right of seizure’. Current senses date from the 18th century. |