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PRISON HOUSE
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Synonyms:
prison; prison house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("prison house" is a kind of...):
correctional institution (a penal institution maintained by the government)
Meronyms (parts of "prison house"):
cellblock; ward (a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prison house"):
bastille (a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner))
chokey; choky (British slang (dated) for a prison)
nick ((British slang) a prison)
panopticon (a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791)
state prison (a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.)
Instance hyponyms:
Newgate (a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Synonyms:
prison; prison house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("prison house" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
