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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
pris•on /ˈprɪzən/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. [countable] a place for keeping people accused of a crime and awaiting trial, or for keeping prisoners.
  2. imprisonment:[uncountable]thirty years in prison.
  3. [countable] any place or state of confinement.
See -pris-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
pris•on  (priz′ən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
  2. See state prison. 
  3. any place of confinement or involuntary restraint.
  4. imprisonment.
  • Latin pre(hē)nsiōn- (stem of prehēnsiō) a seizure, arrest, equivalent. to prehēns(us) (past participle of prehendere to seize) + -iōn- -ion; doublet of prehension
  • Old French, variant of preson imprisonment, a prison
  • Middle English prison, earlier prisun bef. 1150
pris′on•like′, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
prison / ˈprɪzən/
  1. a public building used to house convicted criminals and accused persons remanded in custody and awaiting trial
    See also jail, penitentiary, reformatory
  2. any place of confinement or seeming confinement
Etymology: 12th Century: from Old French prisun, from Latin prēnsiō a capturing, from prehendere to lay hold of
'prison cell' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Judas - black hole - cellmate - coop - dungeon - hold - peter - tank

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