OUBLIETTE Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

oubliette

noun

Definition of oubliette

as in dungeon

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Recent Examples of oubliette One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls. — Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025

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Noun

Their first game was Crawl, a dungeon-crawler game where your friends control the monsters.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
And, finally, new dungeons are being peppered throughout the new DLC zone to incentivize you to explore every nook and cranny.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of dungeon

Noun

After pleading guilty, Ashford was sentenced to 15 years in prison but served only nine months and five years' probation upon release, authorities said.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
As a result of the 2011 conviction, he was sentenced to life in prison.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of prison

Noun

When the boss returns to the office vowing to send them all to jail, he is stunned to see the women have introduced job-sharing, flexible hours, and on-site child care.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
He was booked into the Saline County jail and released Tuesday afternoon on a $70,000 bond, according to the jail's online inmate roster.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of jail

Noun

LeJames Norman, 40, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Still, even on video, Davis doesn’t appear wracked with guilt or anguish about the possibility of spending the rest of his life in the Nevada penitentiary system.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of penitentiary

Noun

Farber said Weinstein’s refusal to accept responsibility, portraying himself as a victim during jailhouse interviews, weighed heavily on his sentencing decision.

— Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of jailhouse

Noun

Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.

— Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022
Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.

— Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020

Definition of calaboose

Noun

For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.

— Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined.

— Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017

Definition of bastille

Noun

At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.

— Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026

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