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# madhouse

«madhouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **An old word for a hospital where people who were very ill…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (madhouses) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

An old word for a hospital where people who were very ill in their minds were kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madhouse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, a place where a person with a sickness of the mind is looked after

### examples

- "A madman," replies the keeper of the madhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madhouse/#x1)
- He dies in the madhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madhouse/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «madhouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/madhouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.