Prison
Prison noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Tollbooth and prison are semantically related. (Scottish) in historical topic. In some cases you can use "Tollbooth" instead a noun "Prison".
Tollbooth
Tollbooth noun - A booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Tollbooth
Both words in one sentence
-
The Phantom Tollbooth: When Milo and Tock get put in the prison in Dictionopolis, the Witch (who stays there of her own free will) shows them the secret escape passage.
Source: Cardboard Prison -
Officer Shrift from The Phantom Tollbooth regularly sentences offenders to prison terms of millions of years, merely because he can.
Source: All Crimes Are Equal
Cite this Source
Tollbooth and Prison. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/prison/tollbooth
Prison & Tollbooth. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/prison/tollbooth>.
Tollbooth or Prison. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/prison/tollbooth.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "prison" and "tollbooth" have occurred on timeline