prison 
1. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment (Freq. 3) • Syn: prison house • Hypernyms: correctional institution • Hyponyms: bastille, chokey, choky, nick, panopticon, state prison • Instance Hyponyms: Newgate • Part Meronyms: cellblock, ward 2. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement • Syn: prison house • Hypernyms: situation, state of affairs
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