Prison
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English
Noun
Prison (countable and uncountable; plural Prisons)- A place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes.
- (uncountable) Confinement in a prison.
- (colloquial) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
Verb
Prison (third-person singular simple present Prisons, present participle Prisoning, simple past and past participle Prisoned)
- (transitive) to imprison
Adjectives for Prison
expensive; nonsensical; windowless; verbal; polluted; model; various (plural); wiry; medieval; repulsive; gloomy; twilight; squalid; voluntary; glittering; millennial; gilded; unsanitary.
Verbs for Prison
cast into—; commit to—; languish in—; pine in—; rot in—; scuttle into—; throw into—; —bars; —cloisters; —confines; —gags ; —harbors; —immures; —incarcerates; —paroles; —rehabilitates; —releases; —restrains; —yokes.
Synonyms
- (place): bridewell; see also Thesaurus:prison.
- (confinement): imprisonment
Coordinate terms
Thesaurus
POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, chokey, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, confinement, constrain, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention, detention camp, dungeon, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, glasshouse, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, immure, incarcerate, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, poky, prison camp, prisonhouse, quod, reform school, reformatory, slammer, sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school
