penal facility

Questions about penal facility

What is another word for penal facility?

It depends which penal facility you mean. In the sense “an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public”, the synonyms are penal institution. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of penal facility?

WordNet records no antonym for penal facility. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for penal facility come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of penal facility

• Full entry for penal facilityAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for penal facilityWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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