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How to pronounce “asylum”
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Pronunciation guide for asylum
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of asylum with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The fundamental right to seek asylum
working with Central American asylum seekers.
- Definition summary
- A place of safety or refuge.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce asylum
The fundamental right to seek asylum

working with Central American asylum seekers.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “asylum”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A place of safety or refuge.
- (uncountable) The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
- (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
- [Verb]
- to place in an asylum
- to grant protection or refuge
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