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Definition of "madhouse" []

  • Offensive An institution for the mentally ill. (noun)
  • Informal A place of great disorder and confusion. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "madhouse" in a sentence
  • "The madhouse was the old Manor House in Clerkenwell which had belonged to the Earls of Northampton."
  • "Divil a word I’d forget, and your face grinning always in front of my eyes, awake or asleep, ’til I do be thinking a madhouse is the proper place for me."
  • ""A madhouse is the place for the man who wants to live ou'doors in the winter time; the poor-farm is too good for him.""