MENTAL INSTITUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental institution mean? 

• MENTAL INSTITUTION (noun)
  The noun MENTAL INSTITUTION has 1 sense:

1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

  Familiarity information: MENTAL INSTITUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL INSTITUTION (noun)

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 institution" is a kind of...):

hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental institution"):

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)