Oasis vs Asylum - What's the difference?
oasis | asylum | Synonyms |
A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
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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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Oasis is a synonym of asylum.
As a proper noun oasis
is the great oasis of thebes, a string of oases in the (libyan desert) where the roman empire would send its criminals, the location of the modern (dakhla oasis) and (kharga oasis).As a noun asylum is
a place of safety.oasis
English
(wikipedia oasis)Noun
(oases)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis', the '''Oasis''' of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost ' Oasis was the Found!}}
Synonyms
* (quiet place or situation) island, refugeAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----asylum
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.
