Noun prison house has 2 senses
  1. prison, prison house - a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
    --1 is a kind of situation, state of affairs
  2. prison, prison house - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
    --2 is a kind of correctional institution
    --2 has parts: cellblock, ward
    --2 has particulars:
     camp; chokey, choky; college; panopticon; state prison
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