PRISON

prison, prison house

(noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

prison, prison house

(noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

prison (countable and uncountable, plural prisons)

A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.

(uncountable) Confinement in prison.

(colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.

Synonyms

• (place or institution of confinement): bridewell, big house; see also prison.

• (state of confinement): imprisonment

Hypernyms

• (place or institution of confinement): correctional facility, correctional institution

Hyponyms

• (place or institution of confinement): panopticon, dungeon

Coordinate terms

• (place or institution of confinement): gaol, jail, slammer, hoosegow

Verb

prison (third-person singular simple present prisons, present participle prisoning, simple past and past participle prisoned)

(transitive) To imprison.

Anagrams

• porins, prions, proins, ripons, spinor

Source: Wiktionary

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Pris"on, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See Prehensile, and cf. Prize, n., Misprision.]

1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority. Prison bars, or Prison base. See Base, n., 24.

– Prison breach. (Law) See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4.

– Prison house, a prison. Shak.

– Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners.

– Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

Pris"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prisoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Prisoning.]

1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty. The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott. His true respect will prison false desire. Shak.

2. To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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