mental hospital psychiatric hospital mental institution institution mental home insane asylum asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
orphanage orphans' asylum | a public institution for the care of orphans |
refuge sanctuary asylum | a shelter from danger or hardship |
yard grounds curtilage | the enclosed land around a house or other building, it was a small house with almost no yard |
reason understanding intellect | the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination, we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil |
reason | a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion, there is reason to believe he is lying |
evidence grounds | your basis for belief or disbelief, knowledge on which to base belief, the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling |
reason | an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon, the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly |
cause reason grounds | a justification for something existing or happening, he had no cause to complain, they had good reason to rejoice |
Enlightenment Age of Reason | a movement in Europe from aboutuntil that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine, the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms |
grounds | a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) |
reason ground | a rational motive for a belief or action, the reason that war was declared, the grounds for their declaration |
coffee grounds | the dregs remaining after brewing coffee |
grounds | dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue, it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds |
rationality reason reasonableness | the state of having good sense and sound judgment, his rationality may have been impaired, he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions |
reason | think logically, The children must learn to reason |
reason reason out conclude | decide by reasoning, draw or come to a conclusion, We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house |
argue reason | present reasons and arguments |