Usually means: Institution for confinement of criminals.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prison: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prison: Merriam-Webster
  3. prison: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prison: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prison: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prison: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prison, prison: Wordnik
  8. prison: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prison: Wiktionary
  10. prison: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prison: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prison: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prison, prison: Dictionary.com
  14. prison: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prison: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Prison (Natalia Gordienko song), Prison (disambiguation), Prison (song), Prison, The Prison (Simenon novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Prison: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. prison: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. prison: Rhymezone
  20. prison, prison (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. prison: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. prison: FreeDictionary.org
  23. prison: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prison: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. prison: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. prison: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prison: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. prison: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prison: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prison: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prison: Easton Bible
  2. Prison: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prison: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See prisoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
noun:  (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
noun:  (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb:  (transitive) To imprison.

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