PRISON

Meaning of PRISON in English

an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of major crimes or felonies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, imprisonment replaced corporal punishment, execution, and banishment as the chief means of punishing serious offenders.

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PRISON
Английский словарь Британика
PRISON — I. ˈpriz ə n noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English prison, prisoun, prisun, from Old French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRISON — — prisonlike , adj. /priz"euhn/ , n. 1. a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — vt to bind (together); to enchain. 2. prison ·noun specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals …
Webster English vocab
PRISON — prison BrE AmE ˈprɪz ə n ▷ prison|s z ▶ ˈ prison camp BrE AmE ▶ ˌ prison ˈ visitor …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PRISON — / ˈprɪzn; NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] a building where people are kept as a punishment …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRISON — pris ‧ on S2 W2 /ˈprɪz ə n/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ prison , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PRISON — n. & v. --n. 1 a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PRISON — n. & v. n. 1 a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PRISON — n. & v. --n. 1. a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Oxford English vocab
PRISON — ( prisons) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A prison is a building …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRISON
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PRISON — [noun] - a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishmentConditions in the prison are said to be …
Cambridge English vocab
PRISON
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PRISON — Synonyms and related words : POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — I. prison noun Synonyms: jail , ||can, cooler, ||hoosegow, keep, lockup, pen, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade II. ||prison verb Synonyms: imprison …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ local ▪ federal ▪ overcrowded ▪ high-security ( esp. BrE ), maximum-security ( esp. AmE ), supermax …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PRISON — INDEX: 1. a place where people are kept as punishment 2. to put someone in prison as a punishment 3. …
Longman Activator English vocab
PRISON — See ↑ PRISON 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be in prison/jail • ↑ put sb in prison/jail
Longman Activator English vocab
PRISON — See: For imprisonment as a punishment, see Punishments It is plain that in Egypt special places were used as prisons, …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
PRISON — noun BAD : Sending people to the prison is not the way to reduce crime. GOOD : Sending people to …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison ≈ освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — prison.ogg 1. ʹprız(ə)n n 1> тюрьма prison sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок prison clothes - арестантская одежда prison camp …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PRISON — prison сущ.тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape from …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PRISON — 1. ʹprız(ə)n n 1) тюрьма prison sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок prison clothes - арестантская одежда prison camp - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape from prison — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PRISON — 1. _n. 1> тюрьма 2> _attr. тюремный; prison hospital - тюремная больница; prison camp - лагерь военнопленных 2. _v. 1> …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
PRISON — сущ. тюрьма (долгосрочного заключения) city prison — городская тюрьма convict prison — тюрьма для осужденных преступников female prison — женская тюрьма male prison — мужская …
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
PRISON — тюрьма (долгосрочного заключения) to land in prison — водворять в тюрьму - adult prison - cellular prison - central training prison - city prison - closed …
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison ≈ освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — prison (-ari, -ario), cárcere
English interlingue dictionary
PRISON — bilanggoan
English-Visayan vocabulary
PRISON — I. noun see: get Date: 12th century a state of confinement or captivity, a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PRISON — (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, …
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — ( v. t. ) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( v. t. ) To bind (together); to enchain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( n. ) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( n. ) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — n. jail, penitentiary, location where convicted criminals and people awaiting trial are confined
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PRISON — v. imprison, put in prison, incarcerate, jail, detain
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PRISON — I. ˈpri-z ə n noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, from prehendere to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PRISON — n. Function: transitive verb Date: 14th century : IMPRISON , CONFINE
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PRISON — n. Pronunciation: ' pri-z ə n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PRISON — ■ noun a building for the confinement of criminals or those awaiting trial. ■ verb ( ~s , ~ing , …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PRISON — [pris.on] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, fr. prehendere to seize--more at get] (12c) 1: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PRISON — (~s) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A ~ is a building where …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PRISON — n. Function: verb Synonyms: IMPRISON , bastille, confine, constrain, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, jug, ||quod
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — n. Function: noun Synonyms: JAIL , ||can, cooler, ||hoosegow, keep, lockup, pen, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — n. Jail, gaol, penitentiary, bridewell, workhouse, house of correction.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
PRISON — noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
PRISON — n. 25B6; noun JAIL, lock-up, penal institution, detention centre; Brit. young offender institution; N. Amer. jailhouse, penitentiary, correctional facility; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — n. 1) to go, be sent, be sentenced to ~ 2) to spend time in ~ 3) to be released …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
PRISON — n. jail or Brit also gaol, dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, penal institution, house of correction, correctional institution, reformatory, house of detention; …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — cweartern, carcern
Англо-Староанглийский словарь
PRISON — Тюрьма
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — тюрьма incarceration in prison or camp — лишение свободы
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
PRISON — (n) тюрьма
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PRISON — 1. [ʹprız(ə)n] n 1) тюрьма ~ sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок ~ clothes - арестантская одежда ~ camp - …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PRISON — n. тюрьма, острог
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PRISON — n. тюрьма, острог
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release

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