Noun

(en noun)

A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.

* 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133

Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.

* 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134

The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.

(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.

* Shakespeare

Let's get the bedlam to lead him.

(obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.

* 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43

But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.

Noun

(en noun)

Pompous, officious talk.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}

A gust of wind.

Fitful noise and violence.