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political asylum

/əˈsʌɪləm/

US pronunciation

American sound/əˈsʌɪləm/

əˈsʌɪləm

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ə - ˈsʌɪləm -> political asylum

Myanmar meaning

နိုင်ငံရေးခိုလှုံခွင့်

Full entry

asylum /ǝ'saÇlǝm/ n

၁။ (also fml political asylum ) [U]
(နိုင်ငံရေး) ခိုလှုံခွင့်။ seek asylum in the UK
❍ He asked the government to grant asylum to the refugees.
၂။ [C] (dated ) စိတ္တဇဆေးရုံ။ a lunatic asylum.
❏ asylum seeker n နိုင်ငံရေးခိုလှုံခွင့်တောင်းသူ။

More examples

[seek asylum] : More than half a million people sought asylum in Europe last year.
[political asylum] : The number of refugees seeking political asylum has risen recently.
[grant someone asylum] : Of the 1, 000 refugees that initially came here, only 50 were granted asylum.

Synonyms

refuge, haven, safe haven, sanctuary, shelter, place of safety, cover, den, harbor, hideaway, hideout, hole, institution, ivory tower, loony bin, madhouse, mental hospital, mental institution, port, preserve, protection, psychiatric hospital, retreat, safe house, safety, sanatorium, security

Antonyms

Cross references

refuge haven safe haven sanctuary shelter place of safety cover den harbor hideaway hideout hole institution ivory tower loony bin madhouse mental hospital mental institution port preserve protection psychiatric hospital retreat safe house safety sanatorium security danger

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