prison house

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	prison house - a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement prison situation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "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
	2.	prison house - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment prison bastille - a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) cellblock, ward - a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) chokey, choky - British slang (dated) for a prison correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government nick - (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick" panopticon - a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 state prison - a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.