prison house

Questions about prison house

What does prison house mean?

prison house means "a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for prison house?

Close synonyms include prison, prison. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prison house a common word?

prison house is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.