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There used to be a hospital in London, England, for the mentally ill called Bethlehem Hospital. The people of London started pronouncing the name "Bethlehem" as "Bedlam". They thought of the hospital as being a wild, chaotic place because of beliefs about mentally ill people. This is how the word "Bedlam" came to mean any state of wild chaos. The building that used to house the original "Bedlam" is now the Imperial War Museum.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoIt is English - it is short for Saint Mary Bethlehem Royal Hospital, a mental hospital in London. The term was used to refer to the confusion inherent in a mental institution in earlier periods, when facilities for the mentally ill were unpleasant places with less care given to the patients than today.
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∙ 10y agoIt was the popular name for the Hospital of St, Mary of Bethlehem in London which served as a lunatic asylum from about the year 1400.
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What is the Hindi word for bedlam?
lotpot
A sentence for the word bedlam?
Manchester United's Stadium becomes a bedlam after Javier "el chicharito" Hernandes scores and the crowd goes wild.
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What is the word origin for the word Bedlam?
a lunatic asylum in London namedhospital of saint Mary of Bethlehem was a notoriously noisy scene of mad confusion in the 14th & 15th centuries at least & bedlam was just Bethlehem slurred in local speech
What rhymes with bedlam?
There are no perfect rhymes for the word bedlam.
What is the origin of bedlam?
The word Bedlam used to describe chaos comes from the name of an ancient mental institution in London, United Kingdom where the inmates where out of control most of the time. This is where the phrase "It's Bedlam there" comes from. The institution no longer exits under that name but the term remains in common usage.
Can you give an example of a sentence using the word bedlam?
The babysitter was certainly not expecting bedlam!
What is the Hindi word for bedlam?
lotpot
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go to amazon.co.uk and search toys and games and then type in bedlam cube what you want to buy should come up.
What is an example sentence with the word Bedlam?
"Bedlam" essentially means "all-hell-breaks-loose."Here is "bedlam" used in a sentence:"During the Los Angeles riots in 1992, it was bedlam at Florence & Normandy when Reginald Denny was pulled from his truck and took a brick to the face."
What is a origin of a word?
The origin of a word indicates the language the word originally came from, or the languages certain parts (such as prefixes and suffixes) come from.
A sentence for the word bedlam?
Manchester United's Stadium becomes a bedlam after Javier "el chicharito" Hernandes scores and the crowd goes wild.
