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Asylum vs Hideout - What's the difference?

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Asylum is a related term of hideout.


As nouns the difference between asylum and hideout

is that asylum is a place of safety while hideout is a place to hide.

asylum

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place of safety.
  • The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
  • A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum , it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.

    Synonyms

    * sanctuary * shelter

    Derived terms

    * insane asylum * mental asylum * orphan asylum * asylum seeker

    See also

    * refugee ----

    hideout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place to hide
    • They'll never find us in this makeshift hideout we've got in the woods

    See also

    * bunker * hideaway