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Definition of Prison house
1. Noun. A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement.
2. Noun. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment.
Specialized synonyms: Bastille, Chokey, Choky, Nick, Panopticon, State Prison
Terms within: Cellblock, Ward
Generic synonyms: Correctional Institution
Specialized synonyms: Newgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prison House
Literary usage of Prison house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Under each Institution, as state prison, house of correction, etc. acct.
shows itemized receipts and expenditures. DELINQUENTS: MINORS 1880-1889. ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"gentleman who is only escaping on ticket-of-leave from the prison-house of
respectability, and is quite unequal to a personal conflict with ' blazing ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"V.— The Prison-House Unmasked: in a Letter to Her Mott Gracious Majesty, shewing
that Arrest and Imprisonment for Debt are Violations of Magna Charta, ..."
4. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"... prison-house I sang praises to my God, and esteemed the bolts and locks upon
me as jewels. And, friends, this I must once again testify to you, ..."
5. The Gospel of Matthew: An Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein (1907)
"... led forth miraculously from the prison house, knocked at the door of the
praying assembly and Rhoda maintained that Peter stood outside, they said "It ..."
6. Revelations of Prison Life: With an Enquiry Into Prison Discipline and by George Laval Chesterton (1856)
"AN ABLE COADJUTOR THE SECRETS OF THE prison house—THE NEW POLICE—A DECISIVE STEP.
MR. SIMS, the new chief turnkey, proved to be exactly suited to the office ..."
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