jail cell
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1.5
- noun
- /dʒeɪl sɛl/
:
celda
- The prison guard checked on the inmates in their jail cells every hour to ensure their safety.
He's in the jail cell with his Cartier glasses on.
- He's in the jail cell with his Cartier glasses on.
- and then a week after his arrest, he's found dead in his jail cell,
- What if even though Nelson Mandela had all the reason in the world to walk out of his jail cell and be angry and he what if he had done it?
- Come back here and lay on this, lay on this dingy little hard cold cot with me in this jail cell.
- And in this cell he is in, he's in front of another member who's being raped right in front of him in this jail cell.
- And after one week, just before just after he's agreed to extradition, in fact, he's found dead in a in a Thai jail cell.
- At first it's John Brown leaving his jail cell on the day of his hanging, where he sat on his own coffin, riding to the gallows.
- I still see the guy in the jail cell that was dead when we when we open the door, I still see friends that have been shot.
- It was announced Saturday morning that Jeffrey had been found dead, hanging and an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.
- You should be able to sit in a jail cell and feel peace.
Examples
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As he sits there in his filthy jail cell, he says, "He is our peace" (Eph. 2:14).
Academic text (2014) -
The solitary confinement jail cell contained a bed, which was basically a hard board, and a blanket.
Blog text (6) -
You should be able to sit in a jail cell and feel peace.
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And not just because we spent last night in a jail cell.
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What about his jail cell?
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During my weekends there, I often thought of Robert, locked in his dark little jail cell with no view.
Fiction book (2002) -
I was in a jail cell for forty-eight hours once.
Fiction book (2001) -
Daphne is sitting on a bench in a jail cell.
Fiction book (2001) -
Hoffman's jail cell was at the end of a hallway, and it was poorly lit.
Fiction book (1996) -
After the trial, he was taken back to his jail cell where he would wait for sentencing.
Synonyms
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5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
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4.1
A secure room in a police station where people wait briefly before going to court
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2.7
A small locked room in jail for holding a person
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8.1
A jail cell for prisoners who are violent
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4.4
A large room in a jail or police station where officers keep several people for a short time
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9.3
A small narrow cell that holds a prisoner in hot, uncomfortable conditions as punishment
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'jail' (a place holding prisoners) with 'cell' (a small locked room); the compound denotes the specific type of cell found in a jail. This noun+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Jail cell comes from the old word cell, which meant a very small room—think of a monk's tiny private room or a small store room. A jail cell is that small room with bars where a person is kept, so the phrase means 'a small room in a jail or prison where a prisoner is held'.