Prison

Noun

 * 1) A place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes.
 * The cold stone walls of the prison had stood for over a century.
 * 1)  Confinement in a prison.
 * Prison was a harrowing experience for him.
 * 1)  Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
 * The academy was a prison for many of its students because of its strict teachers.

Synonyms

 * bridewell; see also Thesaurus:prison.
 * imprisonment

Coordinate terms

 * gaol, jail

Derived terms

 * imprison
 * prison camp
 * prison cell
 * prisoner
 * prison guard


 * prisonhouse
 * prison officer
 * prison record
 * prison sentence
 * prison warden

Verb

 * 1)  to imprison

Adjectives for Prison
expensive; nonsensical; windowless; verbal; polluted; model; various (pi); wiry; medieval; repulsive; gloomy; twilight; squalid; voluntary; glittering; millennial; gilded; unsanitary.

Verbs for Prison
cast into—; commit to—; languish in—; pine in—; rot in—; scuttle into—; throw into—; —bars; —cloisters; —confines; —encages; —gags ; —harbors; —immures; —incarcerates; —paroles; —rehabilitates; —releases; —restrains; —yokes.

Thesaurus
POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, chokey, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, confinement, constrain, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention, detention camp, dungeon, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, glasshouse, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, immure, incarcerate, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, poky, prison camp, prisonhouse, quod, reform school, reformatory, slammer, sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

Etymology
From prison:, from  prehensionem, accusative singular of prehensio:, from prehendo:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: سجن
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: дранголник
 * Burmese: အကျဥ်းထောင်, ထောင်
 * Catalan: presó
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: türm
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ციხე, საპატიმრო
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: príosún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 刑務所
 * Irish: príosún
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 刑務所


 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: គុក, ពន្ធនាគារ
 * Korean: 교도소
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: به‌ندیخانه, گرتوخانه,
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: închisoare, pușcărie,  temniță
 * Russian:,  острог;   ,  каталажка,  тюряга
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene: zapor, ječa
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: சிறை, சிறைச்சாலை
 * Telugu: జైలు (jailu), కారాగారం (kaaraagaaram)
 * Ukrainian: в'язниця
 * Vietnamese: ngục
 * Volapük: fanäböp
 * Welsh: carchar
 * West Frisian: finzenis
 * Vietnamese: ngục
 * Volapük: fanäböp
 * Welsh: carchar
 * West Frisian: finzenis


 * Czech: věznění
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek: φυλάκιση (filakisi), κάθειρξη (kathirksi)
 * Ido: karcero
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Volapük: fanäbam

Verb

 * Volapük: fanäbükön

Anagrams

 * porins
 * prions
 * spinor

Noun

 * 1)  (place where captives are held)

Etymology
From prison:, from  prehensio, prehensionem < prehendō.

Anagrams

 * prions
 * ripons

Noun

 * 1) * circa 1200, author unknown, Aucassin et Nicolette
 * Por vos sui en prison mis dans ce celier sousterin
 * For you, I have been put in this prison in this underground cellar
 * For you, I have been put in this prison in this underground cellar

Etymology
From prehensio, prehensionem < prehendō.

Derived terms

 * prisonnier

Descendants

 * English:
 * French: