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bedlam | hubble |

As a noun bedlam

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

As a proper noun hubble is

derived from the norman french given name hubald .

bedlam

English

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.

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    hubble

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • derived from the Norman French given name Hubald .
  • (astronomy) The astronomer .
  • (astronomy) The .