Thesaurus:jail
English
Noun
Sense: a place where a person convicted or suspected of a crime is detained
Synonyms
Note: many terms are often or only used with the in front.
- big house (the)
- borstal
- bridewell
- brig (the)
- calaboose (US, Australia)
- can
- chokey, choky (UK)
- clink (the)
- correctional facility
- correctional institution
- crowbar hotel
- detention centre
- dungeon
- gaol
- glasshouse
- graybar hotel (the)
- guardhouse (the)
- gulag
- hock
- hole [⇒ thesaurus] (the)
- honor farm
- hoosegow (the)
- house of detention
- iron house
- jail
- jailhouse
- joint [⇒ thesaurus]
- jug
- juvenile hall
- juvie
- lockup
- nigger university (slang, vulgar, offensive)
- nick
- pen [⇒ thesaurus] (the)
- penal colony
- penitentiary
- pokey (the)
- porridge (UK)
- prison [⇒ thesaurus]
- prison camp
- prison farm
- prison hulk
- prison ship
- queer ken (UK cant, Polari)
- remand center
- roundhouse
- slammer (the)
- slam (the)
- stalag
- stir
- stockade (the)
- tronk (South Africa)
- up the river
- workhouse
- Alcatraz
- Attica
- Bastille (the)
- Dartmoor
- Devil's Island
- Folsom
- Hanoi Hilton (the)
- Leavenworth
- Lefortovo
- Maze
- Pelican Bay
- San Quentin
- Sing Sing
- Tower (the)
Meronyms
People
Various
See also
Further reading
- “752. prison” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “jail” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.