madhouse

English

mad +‎ house

madhouse (plural madhouses)

(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.
Synonyms: insane asylum, mental hospital; see also Thesaurus:mental hospital
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
  The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
(by extension) A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.

insane asylum

Azerbaijani: dəlixana
Bulgarian: лудница (bg) f (ludnica)
Catalan: manicomi (ca) m
Danish: galehus n
Finnish: hullujenhuone (fi)
Galician: manicomio (gl) m
German: Irrenhaus (de) n, Irrenanstalt (de) f, Klapsmühle (de) f
Greek: τρελάδικο (el) n (treládiko), τρελοκομείο (el) n (trelokomeío), μουρλοκομείο (el) n (mourlokomeío)
Ido: dementerio (io)
Italian: manicomio (it) m
Macedonian: лудница f (ludnica)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: galehus n

Nynorsk: galehus n, galnehus n
Polish: dom wariatów (pl) m, psychiatryk (pl) m, szpital psychiatryczny (pl) m, wariatkowo (pl) n
Portuguese: manicómio (pt) m (Portugal), manicômio (pt) m (Brazil)
Punjabi: ਪਾਗਲਖਾਨਾ m (pāglakhānā)
Russian: дурдом (ru) m (durdom)
Spanish: manicomio (es) m
Swedish: dårhus (sv) n
Ukrainian: божеві́льня (uk) f (boževílʹnja)

place resembling an insane asylum

Azerbaijani: dəlixana
Catalan: manicomi (ca) m
Danish: galehus n
Finnish: hullujenhuone (fi)
Galician: manicomio (gl) m
German: Tollhaus (de) n
Greek: τρελάδικο (el) n (treládiko), τρελοκομείο (el) n (trelokomeío), μουρλοκομείο (el) n (mourlokomeío)
Italian: manicomio (it) m, gabbia di matti f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: galehus n

Nynorsk: galehus n, galnehus n
Polish: dom wariatów (pl) m, wariatkowo (pl) n
Portuguese: manicomio m
Romanian: balamuc (ro) n
Russian: дурдом (ru) m (durdom)
Spanish: manicomio (es) m
Swedish: dårhus (sv) n

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