different between asylum vs hideout

English

Etymology

From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sa?l?m/

Noun

asylum (plural asylums or asyla)

1. A place of safety.
2. The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
3. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

Synonyms

• sanctuary
• shelter

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• refugee

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]

Noun

as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension

1. asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• hide-out

Etymology

hide +? out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?d?a?t/

Noun

hideout (plural hideouts)

1. A place to hide.

   They'll never find us in this makeshift hideout we've got in the woods.

2. A hidden headquarters or place to return to.

Translations

See also

• hide out (verb)
• bunker
• hideaway
• hiding place