prison
Meaning of prison
noun
- a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
he died in prison
both men were sent to prison
- imprison.
the young man was prisoned behind the doors
late Old English, from Old French prisun, from Latin prensio(n- ), variant of prehensio(n- ) ‘laying hold of’, from the verb prehendere .
Information about prison
- The plural form of prison is: prisons.
- Languages in which prison is used:
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Hyphenation of prison
prison
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- prison is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
prison synonyms
Meaning a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime:
Meaning a building used to accommodate a military guard or to detain military prisoners:
Meaning a prison for people convicted of serious crimes:
Meaning a prison:
Meaning a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals:
Meaning the inner side or surface of something:
Meaning a slight physical movement:
Meaning a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly:
Meaning a unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg):
Meaning a railway locomotive maintenance shed built around a turntable:
Meaning a custodial institution for young offenders:
Meaning a prison or reform school for petty offenders:
Meaning a roadside kiosk where drivers or pedestrians must pay to use a bridge or road:
Meaning an institution to which young offenders are sent as an alternative to prison:
Translation of prison
- German: Gefängnis, Knast, Kittchen, Bau, Loch
- French: prison, trou, tôle, taule, cabane, geôle, placard, pénitencier
- Italian: prigione, carcere
- Spanish: prisión, cárcel
- Portuguese: prisão, xadrez, cana, cárcere, grades, presídio, xilindró, cadeia
Anagrams of prison
orpins, porins, prinos, prions, proins, spinor
Words that rhyme with prison
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