All house of detention synonyms

noun house of detention

• big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
• brig — A brig is a type of ship with two masts and square sails.
• can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
• cooler — A cooler is a container for keeping things cool, especially drinks.
• coop — A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits.
• house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• joint — the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
• 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.
• prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
• tank — to put or store in a tank.
• calaboose — a prison; jail
• icebox — an insulated cabinet or chest with a partition for ice, used for preserving or cooling food, beverages, etc.
• slammer — a person or thing that slams.
• reform school — reformatory (def 2).
• reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
• borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
• 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.
• detention home — a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody, esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
• concentration camp — A concentration camp is a prison in which large numbers of ordinary people are kept in very bad conditions, usually during a war.
• dungeon — Zork
• labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
• lockup — a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
• pen — a female swan.
• prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.