prison

prison

noun

Definition of PRISON

1

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody <the ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison>

Synonyms bastille, big house [slang], bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink [slang], cooler, coop, guardroom, hock, hold, hoosegow, jailhouse, joint [slang], jug, lockup, nick [British slang], pen, penitentiary, pokey [slang], prison, quod [British slang], slam, slammer, stir [slang], stockade, tolbooth [Scottish]

Related Words bull pen, cage, cell, hole, tank; block, ward; glasshouse [British], guardhouse, hulk(s); concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work camp; dungeon, keep, oubliette; reformatory, reform school, training school

Near Antonyms outside

2

the act of confining or the state of being confined <the view that prison does nothing to cure the criminal—if anything, it makes him worse>

Synonyms captivity, confinement, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, prison

Related Words bondage, enslavement, servitude; restraint, restriction; arrest, capture, entrapment; custody, detainer, detainment, detention, house arrest

Near Antonyms emancipation, liberation, manumission, redemption, release; freedom, independence, liberty