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Gaol

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of jail.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Preferred alternative spelling of jail.

n. Alternative spelling of jail.

v. To confine in a gaol; to imprison

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Obsolescent spellings of jail, jailer.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

n. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

Word Usage

"During the Emergency Mrs. Gandhi threw the Maharani in gaol for a while (on trumped up charges of tax evasion — in connection with “undeclared” jewels), then let her out again."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

detain confine

Variant

jail

Form

gaoler engaol

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

jail prison

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

jail penitentiary infirmary asylum workhouse gibbet madhouse almshouse gallows dungeon