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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pris•on /ˈprɪzən/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a place for keeping people accused of a crime and awaiting trial, or for keeping prisoners.
- imprisonment:[uncountable]thirty years in prison.
- [countable] any place or state of confinement.
See -pris-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pris•on (priz′ən),USA pronunciation n. - a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- See state prison.
- any place of confinement or involuntary restraint.
- imprisonment.
- Latin pre(hē)nsiōn- (stem of prehēnsiō) a seizure, arrest, equivalent. to prehēns(us) (past participle of prehendere to seize) + -iōn- -ion; doublet of prehension
- Old French, variant of preson imprisonment, a prison
- Middle English prison, earlier prisun bef. 1150
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