oubliette

noun

Definition of oubliettenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
  1. dungeon
  2. prison
  3. jail
  4. penitentiary
  5. jailhouse
  6. calaboose
  7. bastille
  8. stockade
Noun
  • Jeyne Arryn doesn’t lock people in the dungeon but in sky cells.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Refusing to surrender, Murashige has Kanbei thrown into a dungeon—a breach of the samurai code of honor, Kanbei protests, insisting on being either released or executed.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Definition of dungeon
Noun
  • Linares-Rea faces up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count and two years for each identity theft count, prosecutors said.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Sandford pleaded guilty to federal firearm and disruption charges and was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of prison
Noun
  • His mother was held in jail overnight before being released Thursday on $75,000 bail, officials said.
    — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Having already served a yearlong jail sentence for an Orinda bank robbery in 2018, Luchin was indicted last year on charges of attempting to rob three San Francisco banks in the same day.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • On this day in 1934, Alcatraz welcomed its first civilian prisoners, a group of 14 from the federal penitentiary on McNeil Island, Washington.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • From 1873 to 1991, the island served as Costa Rica’s principal penitentiary, where some of the country’s worst criminals were sent to serve often short and torturous sentences.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 July 2026
Definition of penitentiary
Noun
  • Disturbing jailhouse conversations don’t connect mother to murders Allegations of drug abuse and child neglect against Marcee Gray were already well established by the time her son Colt entered guilty pleas on 55 counts.
    — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The area was once home to Frontier City and Stagecoach Stop, roadside attractions that had a bank, blacksmith, general store, jailhouse, livery stable and saloon, all popular establishments featured in popular Western films.
    — JANELLE D. JAMES, ABC News, 29 July 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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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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