manicomio

m.

1 mental or psychiatric hospital (British), insane asylum (United States).

2 insane asylum, lunatic asylum, asylum, crazy house.

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manicomio

► nombre masculino

1 mental hospital

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noun m.

asylum

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SM lunatic asylum, insane asylum (EEUU), mental hospital

no quiero ir a parar a un manicomio — I don't want to end up in the loony bin *

ese día la ciudad es un manicomio — on that day the city goes mad o is like a madhouse

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masculino mental hospital, lunatic asylum

esta casa es un manicomio! — this is a madhouse!

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= asylum, mental asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam.

Nota: Usado en el sentido figurado para indicar desorden y caos.

Ex. Most of the early asylums for the insane in the USA established libraries for their patients.

Ex. The book starts with the author's mother being taken away for committal to a mental asylum.

Ex. The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex. In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex. In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

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masculino mental hospital, lunatic asylum

esta casa es un manicomio! — this is a madhouse!

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= asylum, mental asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, bedlam.

Nota: Usado en el sentido figurado para indicar desorden y caos.

Ex: Most of the early asylums for the insane in the USA established libraries for their patients.

Ex: The book starts with the author's mother being taken away for committal to a mental asylum.

Ex: The writer argues that the steady growth in lunatic asylums in early-19th-century British India played an important role in the making of colonial society.

Ex: In the book, Romania is a madhouse filled with the handicapped, deaf mutes, and stutterers.

Ex: In subsequent years, Bethlem became 'Bedlam,' a metaphor for madness; being so long the only public receptacle for the insane, it became equated with madness itself.

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manicomio

masculine

mental hospital, lunatic asylum

¡esta casa es un manicomio! this is a madhouse!

si sigue así, va a terminar en el manicomio if he carries on the way he is, he'll end up in the loony bin (colloq)

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manicomio sustantivo masculino
mental hospital, lunatic asylum
manicomio sustantivo masculino mental hospital
'manicomio' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
internar
English:
asylum
- commit
- institution
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- snakepit

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manicomio nm

Br mental o psychiatric hospital, US insane asylum; Fam

esta oficina es un manicomio this office is a madhouse

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manicomio

m lunatic asylum

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manicomio nm

: insane asylum, madhouse

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manicomio n mental hospital