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Showing words for PRISON using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Prison

orpins, prinos, prions, prison, proins, spinor

5 Letter Words for Prison

irons, noirs, noris, opsin, ornis, orpin, pions, pirns, porns, prion, proin, psion, roins, rosin, sirop, spiro

4 Letter Words for Prison

inro, insp, ions, ipso, iron, nips, noir, nori, pino, pins, pion, pirn, pirs, piso, pois, pons, porn, prin, prio, pron, pros, rins, rips, risp, roin, sion, snip, snop, soir, sori, sorn, spin, spor

3 Letter Words for Prison

ins, ion, ios, ipo, ipr, ips, irs, isn, iso, nip, nis, nor, nos, ois, oni, ons, ops, ors, osi, pin, pir, pis, poi, pon, por, pos, prn, pro, prs, psi, rin, rio, rip, roi, ron, ros, rps, sin, sip, sir, son, sop, sri

Definitions for Prison

[1] a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
[2] state prison.
[3] any place of confinement or involuntary restraint.
[4] imprisonment.
[5] a public building used to house convicted criminals and accused persons remanded in custody and awaiting trial See also jail, penitentiary, reformatory
[6] any place of confinement or seeming confinement

Words related to Prison

penitentiary, lockup, confinement, jail, dungeon, cooler, keep, pen, can, stockade, reformatory, clink, slammer, G, guardhouse, bastille, statesville

Words nearby Prison

prismatic compass, prismatic layer, prismatic telescope, prismatoid, prismoid, prison, prison camp, prison fever, prison psychosis, prison rustic work, prisoner

Origin of Prison

before 1150; Middle English prison, earlier prisun < Old French, variant of preson imprisonment, a prison < Latin pre(hē)nsiōn- (stem of prehēnsiō ) a seizure, arrest, equivalent to prehēns(us ) (past participle of prehendere to seize) + -iōn- -ion; doublet of prehension

Words that may be confused with Prison

jail, prison

Other words from Prison

pris·on·like , adjective
post·pris·on , adjective

Word origin for Prison

C12: from Old French prisun, from Latin prēnsiō a capturing, from prehendere to lay hold of

Synonyms for Prison

confinement, jail, lockup, penitentiary, G, bastille, can, clink, cooler, dungeon, guardhouse, keep, pen, reformatory, slammer, stockade, penal institution, statesville, up the river