p 3 r 1 i 1 s 1 o 1 n 1
6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
noun a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
originFrom Middle English prisoun, prison, from Old English prisūn, a borrowing from Old French prison, from Latin prehensiōnem, accusative singular of prehensiō, from the verb prehendō. Doublet of prehension.
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