Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mental hospital

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: men-tal hos-pi-tal
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.

Etymology

Piecewise doublet of mental hotel.

Inflected Forms

mental hospitals (plural)

Phrases

mad person

Frequently Paired Words

mad person asylum prison

Synonyms

psychiatric hospital bedlam bin booby-hatch booby house bughouse crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm happy hotel insane asylum laughing academy

Questions

What does mental hospital mean?: A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Where does mental hospital come from?: Piecewise doublet of mental hotel.

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