Hyphenation of asylum

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word asylum? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

asy-lum

Definitions of asylum:

1.	A shelter from danger or hardship
2.	A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Synonyms of asylum:

noun	refuge, sanctuary, shelter
noun	mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, hospital, infirmary

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.