Synonyms of stockade

stockade

noun

stä-ˈkād 

as in penitentiary

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

prisoners of war confined in a stockade

Synonyms & Similar Words

• penitentiary
• jail
• prison
• brig
• guardroom
• calaboose
• jailhouse
• lockup
• bastille
• pen
• bridewell
• coop
• slammer
• hoosegow
• cage
• tolbooth
• big house
• cooler
• pokey
• jug
• hock
• dungeon
• clink
• guardhouse
• tank
• nick
• cell
• stir
• joint
• quod
• slam
• can
• hold
• ward
• bull pen
• hole
• stalag
• gulag
• reformatory
• concentration camp
• prison camp
• labor camp
• block
• glasshouse
• work camp
• oubliette
• keep
• reform school
• hulk(s)
• training school

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outside

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stockade

Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War. — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025

During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025

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, 3 Sep. 2024

Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta. — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024