noun
Meaning 1
prison; jailhouse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
prison house
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
Meaning 2
a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prison
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: correctional institution
Narrower terms: bastille, chokey, choky, nick, panopticon, state prison, Newgate
noun
Meaning 3
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prison
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: situation, state of affairs
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.