prison

Meaning of prison

noun
  1. a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
    he died in prison
    both men were sent to prison
verb
  1. imprison.
    the young man was prisoned behind the doors

late Old English, from Old French prisun, from Latin prensio(n- ), variant of prehensio(n- ) ‘laying hold of’, from the verb prehendere .

Information about prison

  • The plural form of prison is: prisons.
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Hyphenation of prison

prison

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • prison is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

prison synonyms

Meaning a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime:

jail

Meaning a building used to accommodate a military guard or to detain military prisoners:

guardhouse

Meaning a prison for people convicted of serious crimes:

penitentiary

Meaning a prison:

jailhouse

Meaning a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals:

stockade

Meaning the inner side or surface of something:

inside

Meaning a slight physical movement:

stir

Meaning a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly:

bird

quod

Meaning a unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg):

pound

Meaning a railway locomotive maintenance shed built around a turntable:

roundhouse

Meaning a custodial institution for young offenders:

borstal

Meaning a prison or reform school for petty offenders:

bridewell

Meaning a roadside kiosk where drivers or pedestrians must pay to use a bridge or road:

tollbooth

Meaning an institution to which young offenders are sent as an alternative to prison:

reformatory

Translation of prison

Anagrams of prison

orpins, porins, prinos, prions, proins, spinor

Words that rhyme with prison

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