reformatory

1. 1.

   correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders

   Synonymsreform schooltraining school

   Broadercorrectional institution

   Narrowerborstal

1. 1.

   tending to reform

   “reformative and rehabilitative agencies”

   “reformatory punishment”

   Synonymsreformative

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Other forms of reformatory

plural

reformatories·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reformatory

What does reformatory mean?

reformatory means "correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reformatory?

reformatory has 5 syllables: re-for-ma-to-ry. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfɔɹməˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for reformatory?

Close synonyms include reform school, training school, reformative. 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 reformatory a common word?

reformatory 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.

What rhymes with reformatory?

59 words rhyme with reformatory. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.