Penitentiary

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A state or federal prison for convicted felons.
 * 2) (Roman Catholic Church) A priest who administers the sacrament of penance.

Synonyms

 * pen

Derived terms

 * pen

Adjective

 * of, or related to penance; penitential
 * of, or relating to the punishment of criminals

Coordinate terms

 * carceral

Thesaurus
Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, POW camp, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bail, bastille, bishop, bishop coadjutor, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, can, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, cassock, cell, chaplain, coadjutor, concentration camp, condemned cell, confessor, cooler, coop, curate, cure, dean, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, father, father confessor, father in Christ, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gallach, gaol, guardhouse, hierarch, high priest, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, metropolitan, minimum-security prison, oubliette, padre, papa, parish priest, patriarch, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, presbyter, priest, primate, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, rector, reform school, reformatory, rural dean, spiritual director, spiritual father, sponging house, state prison, stockade, subdean, suffragan, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vicar

Etymology
From penitentiaria:, term used by the Quakers in Pennsylvania during the 1790s, describing a place for penitents to dwell upon their sins.

Noun

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Adjective

 * Norwegian: fengsels- (affix construction)