Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mental institution

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables
men-tal in-sti-tu-tion
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.

Derogatory; Informal

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

mental institutions (plural)

Synonyms

mental hospital psychiatric hospital institution mental home insane asylum asylum

Questions

What does mental institution mean?
A psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.

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