prison cell
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈprɪzən sɛl/
:
celda
- I didn't keep track of the days I spent in my prison cell.
Feel the wall of the prison cell as you scrub against it.
- Feel the wall of the prison cell as you scrub against it.
- Not to mention share their prison cells with serial male rapists.
- That's what you get in prison, right in a prison cell, bang, door lock.
- It's just a concrete prison cell with another room and another room.
- I used to be in my prison cell dreaming about maybe like one day.
- Well, I went over to Nelson Mandela's prison cell and I stood there and I was shocked.
- There's this weird ghost boy that keeps showing up in her prison cell.
- He's waiting outside my prison, outside my prison cell.
- But yeah, I set up this because it was my therapy, you know, cooking in my prison cell and trying to make the best of it.
- Because it's unfinished, you could say, well, how's he going to do that in his prison cell?
- And there is this sort of tale from history where British soldiers were imprisoned in this prison cell, which was the size of three double beds.
- And we begin and essentially we end with Raul stuck in a prison cell and then eventually getting out of it.
- He was lucky because many of those people were executed and very often just outside the prison cell with the shot in the back of his neck.
- And so one day now I'm in this prison cell and these things are happening to me and I'm writing this motion.
- And we know that there is not exactly a happy ending because she is recounting this tale from her prison cell.
Examples
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But yeah, I set up this because it was my therapy, you know, cooking in my prison cell and trying to make the best of it.
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The prison cell was cold and unwelcoming, with only a narrow window high above.
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From inside a prison cell?
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It's gonna be the first Christmas I spend not just alone, but alone inside of a prison cell.
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Will you stay with me in my prison cell?
Fiction book (2001) -
It's just a concrete prison cell with another room and another room.
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Prison authorities searched his prison cell on the orders of the prosecution.
Blog text (26) -
Came from a prison cell in Alcatraz.
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Your room is a perfect replica of a prison cell.
Fiction book (2000) -
I was feeling mighty bad, rotting in that prison cell.
Synonyms
549
5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
80
5.0
A room under a castle used to keep prisoners
43
1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
22
8.1
A jail cell for prisoners who are violent
1
9.3
A small narrow cell that holds a prisoner in hot, uncomfortable conditions as punishment
How Hidden
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small room in a prison where a prisoner is kept' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'prison' (institution housing prisoners) with 'cell' (a small locked room). This noun–noun composition is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common labeling pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the compound.
Etymology
Prison cell comes from the word cell, which used to mean a small private room where a monk lived. That's why prison cell now means 'a small room in a prison where a prisoner is kept'.