penitentiary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pen·i·ten·tia·ry /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri/ noun (plural penitentiaries) [countable] American English SCJa prison – used especially in the names of prisons 监狱〔尤用于监狱名称〕 the North Carolina state penitentiary 北卡罗来纳州立监狱► see thesaurus at prison
Examples from the Corpus
penitentiary• If Kili is a penitentiary, Bikini is the penthouse suite.• Officials said the devices appear similar to two additional bombs that arrived Thursday at a federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.• the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island• Tom Martell sits in the federal penitentiary at Las Vegas, a prisoner of conscience.• the North Carolina State Penitentiary• the Ohio State penitentiary• The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.• The turn-off for the penitentiary appears too suddenly out of flat scrub.• When I arrived back from the penitentiary, Gloria was in my room asleep.• Other men in the penitentiary kept garden snakes, rats and pigeons for pets..• He has been out of the penitentiary for one week and the suit is his prison issue.• He helped me get out the penitentiary.pen·i·ten·tia·ry nounChineseSyllable
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penitentiary
pen‧i‧ten‧tia‧ry /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/
noun (plural penitentiaries) [countable] American English
a prison – used especially in the names of prisons:
the North Carolina state penitentiary
▪ prison a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: He was sentenced to five years in prison. | Wandsworth Prison
▪jail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887. | He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail. | 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes. | The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing. | Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.
▪gaol /dʒeɪl/ British English another way of spelling jail: He spent the night in gaol.
▪penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/ American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: the Ohio State Penitentiary | The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater. | the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
▪correctional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.
▪detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life. | a juvenile detention center | Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport
▪open prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.
▪cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: a prison cell | Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
pen‧i‧ten‧tia‧ry /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/
noun (plural penitentiaries) [countable] American Englisha prison – used especially in the names of prisons:
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