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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 prison house
 牢房

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pris·on n.
 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o░ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
    Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.   --Ps. cxlii. 7.
 The tyrant Aeolus, . . .
 With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds,
 And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.   --Dryden.
 2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
 Prison bars, or Prison base. See Base, n., 24.
 Prison breach. Law See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4.
 Prison house, a prison. --Shak.
 Prison ship Naut., a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners.
 Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 prison house
      n 1: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement [syn:
            prison]
      2: a correctional institution where persons are confined while
         on trial or for punishment [syn: prison]