prison
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈprɪzən/
:
prisión
- For some, living in a strict household can feel like being in a prison.
- a psychic prison
And I think it's like a, a prison, but a schoolboy prison.
- And I think it's like a, a prison, but a schoolboy prison.
- He's waiting outside my prison, outside my prison cell.
- And then it becomes a huge prison for yourself.
- And they are trained on this, this prison planet, which is hellish conditions.
- At the gate dawn drops into the pine Grove, into the prison of impossible ideals.
- No parents, no boys, home prison, all of that stuff.
Examples
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Let's free you from this prison that they have put you in.
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I mean, this place starts to feel like a prison.
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You cannot taste or smell or touch a prison for your mind.
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I was more free in prison than I was when I was free.
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I have been living in a prison of fear since that day.
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You got too used to thinking small, stuck inside that shitty little prison cell all those years.
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Their movements within the prison and access to the outside world are severely restricted.
Academic text (1996) -
Ricla now sees her own space as a "prison," a place where she no longer has a purpose.
Academic text (1996) -
The sane simplicity of life at the ranch had become a prison the moment the scripts were delivered.
Fiction book (1990) -
I clicked on the flashlight, and its beam hit the lawn like a prison spotlight.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
549
5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
155
3.9
A situation in which someone is kept and not allowed to leave, often by police until a decision is made
150
5.7
A situation that limits a person's freedom or movement
102
3.7
A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
80
5.9
A state of being kept in a small closed space and unable to move freely
49
5.6
A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
43
1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
42
9.4
An informal word for prison where people serve time
42
4.1
A building where police keep people who are waiting for trial or serving a sentence
40
5.5
A small room in a police station where police keep people temporarily
37
7.0
Guards keep a prisoner alone and away from other prisoners as punishment or for safety
29
2.7
A small locked room in jail for holding a person
27
4.3
A prison run by a state government for people found guilty of serious crimes
26
5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
12
4.9
A part of a prison that has several cells for prisoners
10
4.2
A building like a prison where people are kept as punishment and given training
7
8.2
A place, often on an island, where the government keeps people sent there for crimes and they cannot leave
2
4.4
A large room in a jail or police station where officers keep several people for a short time
2
4.9
A place where people who broke the law are kept as punishment or while they wait for trial
1
6.3
A place like a prison where people are kept as punishment for crimes
1
6.8
A place in the countryside where people who broke the law live and work on farms
1
9.3
A situation that keeps a person trapped by their own choices
1
7.7
A place where young people who broke the law are kept by the court for a short time
1
6.0
A building that holds people as punishment for crimes to protect the public
A place that feels like you cannot move or act freely
To live in prison and see what life there is like
Idioms
- Literature
1
9.3
A situation that keeps a person trapped by their own choices
Compounds
1
6.5
A religious leader who works in a prison and gives religious help to prisoners
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prison comes from the old verb prehendere meaning 'to take', giving the strong idea of being held. So we also use prison for any place or situation that 'holds' you and stops you from being free.