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Prison
01
a building where people who did something illegal, such as stealing, murder, etc., are kept as a punishment
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
prisons
Examples
He was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in the robbery.
02
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Lexical Tree
prisonlike
prison
