Definition & Meaning of "prison"in English

Prison

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

singular

not gender specific

Plural form

prisons

Examples

He was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in the robbery.

a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

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