Prison and Tolbooth

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Prison

Prison noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: the ongoing debate whether drug users should go to prison

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Tolbooth and prison are semantically related. (Scottish) In some cases you can use "Tolbooth" instead a noun "Prison".

Nearby Words: prisoner, prisoned, prisoning

Tolbooth

Tolbooth noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: Deacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh

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Prison and tolbooth are semantically related. You can use "Prison" instead a noun "Tolbooth".

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