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

Charlie has escaped Rose’s Silence of the Lambs dungeon that was alluded to in the last episodes.

— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
The other new release is a dungeon-crawling RPG called Gloom Gate.

— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of dungeon

Noun

She was sentenced to just over 11 years in prison, and she and her former boyfriend and business partner Sunny Balwani were ordered to pay $452 million in restitution.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Miranda Orozco, 50, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to arranging travel and accommodations for two people who died and another who was seriously injured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of prison

Noun

The report examined publicly available FBI and immigration arrest data and does not include details about whether charges were dropped or if people served any time in jail or prison.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
Look, the Kansas Bill of Rights clearly says you cannot be arrested or thrown in jail because of indebtedness.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of jail

Noun

Beyond the towering brick walls of the Tarrant County Jail, and every other county jail and state penitentiary in the country, lies an out-of-sight-out-of-mind world that most never see, let alone experience.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
Mexico has 276 prisons, including 14 federal penitentiaries and 249 state prisons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of penitentiary

Noun

Salguero Olivares, meanwhile, cried when prosecutors played video of a jailhouse call between him and a friend who has since died.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Jeffrey, who had one daughter, wrote poetry and rap lyrics with a social conscience and was involved in jailhouse ministry while he was incarcerated.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 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

Definition of stockade

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