Hospital vs Asylum - What's the difference?
hospital | asylum |
A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
(obsolete) A place of lodging.
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The place and state of being hospitalized.
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.
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As nouns the difference between hospital and asylum
is that hospital is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients while asylum is a place of safety.As an adjective hospital
is (obsolete) hospitable.hospital
English
(wikipedia hospital)Noun
(en noun)- they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .
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* (l)Derived terms
* cottage hospitalasylum
English
Noun
(en noun)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.