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MENTAL HOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental home mean?
• MENTAL HOME (noun)
The noun MENTAL HOME has 1 sense:
1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
Familiarity information: MENTAL HOME 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 ("mental home" is a kind of...):
hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental home"):
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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