English Dictionary

madhouse

noun

(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum. / (by extension) A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.

The patients in the madhouse were constantly monitored by the staff.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.

The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.

意味（2）

(by extension) A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.