madhouse

English

Etymology

mad +‎ house

Noun

madhouse (plural madhouses)

1. (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.

2. (by extension) A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.

Translations

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
• Sranan Tongo: kolera
• 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