| Main Entry: | door |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entrance to room, building |
Synonyms: |
aperture, egress, entry, entryway, exit, gate, gateway, hatch, hatchway, ingress, opening, portal, postern, slammer |
| Main Entry: | gate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movable barrier at entrance |
Synonyms: |
access, bar, conduit, door, doorway, egress, exit, fence, gateway, issue, lock, opening, passage, port, portal, portcullis, revolving door, slammer, turnstile, way, weir |
| Notes: | a gait is a person's manner of walking or a horse's manner of moving; a gate is a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall, or the total admission receipts at a sports or entertainment event |
| Main Entry: | jail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for incarceration |
Synonyms: |
bastille, black hole, brig, bullpen, can*, cell, clink, cooler, detention camp, dungeon, house of correction, inside*, jailhouse, joint*, lockup, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, rack, reformatory, slammer, solitary*, stir*, stockade, up the river |
| Main Entry: | penitentiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
Synonyms: |
big house, campus, can*, college, cooler, correctional institution, inside*, joint*, lockup, pen*, penal institution, prison, reformatory, slammer, stockade |
| Main Entry: | prison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence for incarcerating criminals |
Synonyms: |
G, bastille, can*, clink, confinement, cooler, dungeon, guardhouse, jail, keep, lockup, pen*, penal institution, penitentiary, reformatory, slammer, statesville, stockade, up the river |
| Main Entry: | stockade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enclosure; jail |
Synonyms: |
barrier, cage, camp, can*, cell, clink, cooler, coop, corral, detention camp, dungeon, fence, jailhouse, joint*, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, protection, slammer, sty |
| Main Entry: | big house |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penal institution |
Synonyms: |
big cage, big house, big school, brig, calaboose, can, city hotel, cooler, coop, correctional institution, detention facility, house of correction, house of detention, icebox, jail, joint, penitentiary, prison, slammer, tank, the river |
| Main Entry: | penal institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correctional facility |
Synonyms: |
POW camp, brig, concentration camp, dungeon, house of detention, jail, labor camp, lockup, military prison, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisoner-of-war camp, slammer, stockade |
| Main Entry: | brig |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
Synonyms: |
guardhouse, prison, slammer, stockade |
| Main Entry: | lockup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jail |
Synonyms: |
calaboose, clink, cooler, hoosegow, penitentiary, pokey, prison, slammer |