Noun

• S: (n) prison, prison house (a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) bastille (a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner))
• S: (n) chokey, choky (British slang (dated) for a prison)
• S: (n) nick ((British slang) a prison) "he's in the nick"
• S: (n) panopticon (a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791)
• S: (n) state prison (a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.)
• S: (n) 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)
• part meronym
• has instance
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) prison, prison house (a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement)