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BEDLAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pejorative terms for an insane asylum
Synonyms:
Bedlam; booby hatch; crazy house; cuckoo's nest; funny farm; funny house; loony bin; madhouse; nut house; nuthouse; sanatorium; snake pit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Bedlam" is a kind of...):
asylum; insane asylum; institution; mental home; mental hospital; mental institution; psychiatric hospital (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of extreme confusion and disorder
Synonyms:
bedlam; chaos; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bedlam" is a kind of...):
confusion (disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bedlam"):
balagan (a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian))
