All guardhouse synonyms

noun guardhouse

• penitentiary — a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
• lockup — a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• dungeon — Zork
• cooler — A cooler is a container for keeping things cool, especially drinks.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• pen — a female swan.
• can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
• clink — If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
• slammer — a person or thing that slams.
• g — the seventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
• statesville — a city in central North Carolina.
• up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
• gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
• cells — a wireless telephone using a system of low-powered radio transmitters, with each transmitter covering a distinct geographical area (cell) and computer equipment to switch a call from one area to another, thus enabling broad-scale portable phone service.
• detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.