jail
noun
[ dʒeɪl ]
• a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
• "he spent 15 years in jail"
Similar:
prison,
penal institution,
place of detention,
lock-up,
place of confinement,
guardhouse,
correctional facility,
detention centre,
young offender institution,
youth custody centre,
penitentiary,
jailhouse,
boot camp,
stockade,
house of correction,
the clink,
the slammer,
inside,
stir,
the jug,
the big house,
the brig,
the glasshouse,
the nick,
the can,
the pen,
the cooler,
the joint,
the pokey,
the slam,
the skookum house,
the calaboose,
the hoosegow,
chokey,
bird,
quod,
pound,
roundhouse,
approved school,
borstal,
bridewell,
tollbooth,
bastille,
reformatory,
jail
verb
• put (someone) in jail.
• "the driver was jailed for two years"
Similar:
imprison,
put in prison,
send to prison,
incarcerate,
lock up,
take into custody,
put under lock and key,
put away,
intern,
confine,
detain,
hold prisoner,
hold captive,
hold,
put into detention,
constrain,
immure,
put in chains,
put in irons,
clap in irons,
send down,
put behind bars,
put inside,
bang up,
Origin:
Middle English: based on Latin cavea (see cage). The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol ), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat .
