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prison n. jail or Brit also gaol, dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, penal
institution, house of correction, correctional institution,
reformatory, house of detention; confinement, detention;
Old-fashioned reform school, Military guardhouse; Brit remand
centre, detention centre, remand home, community home, Military
glasshouse, Formal CHE (= 'community home with education on the
premises'), Old-fashioned approved school; US penitentiary,
Military brig; Archaic Brit bridewell; Slang clink, can, cooler,
jug, stir, Brit quod, chokey or choky, US and Canadian pokey or
poky; US pen, calaboose, slammer, hoosegow, Old-fashioned big
house: He was released from prison last Friday after serving
six months for burglary.
prisoner n. convict, trusty; internee, detainee; Colloq jailbird or Brit
also gaolbird, lifer, Slang con, Brit (old) lag, Old-fashioned
ticket-of-leave man, US two-time or three-time loser:
Prisoners' letters were censored.
prissy adj. fussy, precious, over-nice, finicky or finical,
strait-laced, school-marmish, prim (and proper), prudish,
squeamish, fastidious, Colloq old-maidish: He is awfully prissy
about changing on the beach.
pristine adj. 1 original, primal, basic, primeval or Brit also
primaeval, primitive, primordial, earliest, first, initial: It
is impractical to try to return the world to what some regard as
its pristine purity. 2 uncorrupted, pure, unsullied, undefiled,
virginal, virgin, chaste, untouched, unspoiled, unpolluted,
untarnished, spotless, immaculate, natural: One must travel far
today to experience the pristine beauty of nature. The car was
in pristine condition.
privacy n. 1 seclusion, retirement, solitude, isolation, retreat,
sequestration, reclusiveness, reclusion, solitariness;
monasticism: Coleman very much enjoys the privacy of living
alone. 2 secrecy, secretiveness, clandestineness,
confidentiality, surreptitiousness, covertness, concealment:
Many feel that the questions on census forms invade their
privacy.
private adj. 1 (top) secret, confidential, undisclosed, hidden,
clandestine, concealed, covert, surreptitious, off the record,
not for publication, unofficial, Colloq hush-hush: I think our