Prison
31prison — A public building or other place for the confinement of persons, whether as a punishment imposed by the law or otherwise in the course of the administration of justice. A state or federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony… …
32Prison — The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, Joseph s master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king s prisoners were bound (Gen. 39:20 23). The Heb. word here used …
33prison — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …
34prison — [[t]prɪ̱z(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦ prisons N VAR: oft in names after n A prison is a building where criminals are kept as punishment or where people accused of a crime are kept before their trial. The prison s inmates are being kept in their cells... He was… …
35prison*/*/*/ — [ˈprɪz(ə)n] noun [C/U] an institution where people are kept as a punishment for committing a crime He s currently in prison for tax fraud.[/ex] You can go to prison for that, you know.[/ex] He was sent to prison for armed robbery.[/ex] She could… …
36prison — n. & v. n. 1 a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which persons are legally committed while awaiting trial or for punishment; a jail. 2 custody, confinement (in prison). v.tr. poet. (prisoned, prisoning) put in… …
37Prison — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Means of restraint. < N PARAG:Prison >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 prison prison prison house Sgm: N 1 jail jail gaol cage coop den cell Sgm: N 1 stronghold stronghold fortress …
38prison — 1. noun a) A place of long term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes. The cold stone walls of the prison had stood for over a century. b) Confinement in a prison. Prison was a harrowing experience for him. Syn: bridewell,… …
39Prison — MORAND (Paul) Bio express : Écrivain français (1888 1976) «Les salons et les académies tuent plus de révolutionnaires que les prisons ou les canons.» Source : Le Lion écarlate Mot(s) clé(s) : Guerre Intellectuel Prison… …
40prison n — A convict in Leavenworth wanted to telephone a fellow convict in Attica, so he called him prison to prison …
