plural noun
Places where people are kept when a court has ordered them to stay there as punishment for crimes.
Several prisons in the state are overcrowded.
Two new prisons opened last year.
American English
How to pronounce prisons
nounA2Common word
PʰRIHznz
/ˈpʰɹɪ.zn̩z/
2 syllables · Stress the first syllable.
Form of prison
Places where people are kept when a court has ordered them to stay there as punishment for crimes.
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Useful expressions
being kept in prison
She has been in prison since 2022.
be sent to prison as punishment for a crime
He went to prison for five years.