Synonyms: prison, prison house
Definition: a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Similar words: correctional institution
Definition: a penal institution maintained by the government
Synonyms: prison, prison house
Definition: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Similar words: situation, state of affairs
Definition: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
Usage: the present international situation is dangerous; wondered how such a state of affairs had come about; eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt