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We found 39 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word penitentiary:
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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. penitentiary: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. penitentiary: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. penitentiary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. penitentiary: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. penitentiary: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. penitentiary: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Penitentiary, penitentiary: Wordnik [home, info]
8. penitentiary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. penitentiary: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. penitentiary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. penitentiary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. penitentiary: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. penitentiary: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. penitentiary: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. penitentiary: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. penitentiary: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Penitentiary (disambiguation), Penitentiary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Penitentiary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. penitentiary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. penitentiary: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. Penitentiary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. penitentiary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. Penitentiary: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
24. penitentiary: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. penitentiary: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. penitentiary: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. penitentiary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. penitentiary: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

29. penitentiary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
30. penitentiary: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
31. penitentiary: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
32. penitentiary: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
33. PENITENTIARY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
34. penitentiary: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

35. penitentiary: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

36. penitentiary: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

37. penitentiary: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (penitentiary) ▸ noun:  a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes ▸ adjective:  used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers ("Penitentiary institutions") ▸ Also see penitentiaries ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to penitentiary ▸ Usage examples for penitentiary ▸ Popular adjectives describing penitentiary ▸ Popular nouns described by penitentiary ▸ Words that often appear near penitentiary ▸ Rhymes of penitentiary ▸ Invented words related to penitentiary