noun (n)

• a shelter from danger or hardship(noun.artifact)

  Synonym:
  refuge, sanctuary
  

  source: wordnet30
• a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person(noun.artifact)

  Synonym:
  insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital
  

  source: wordnet30
• A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.(noun)

  source: webster1913