Jail

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons awaiting trial under local jurisdiction.
  • n. Detention in a jail.
  • v. To detain in or as if in a jail.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A place for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
  • n. Confinement in a jail.
  • n. school
  • n. The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
  • v. To imprison.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
  • v. To imprison.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for crime or for debt; usually, in the United States, a place of confinement for minor offenses in a county.
  • To confine in or as if in a jail; imprison.
  • 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)
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    jailed    jailing    jails   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    detain    confine   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    gaol   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    imprison    prison    confine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prison    gaol    dungeon    inn    imprisonment    barrack    cemetery    castle    warehouse    police