'Dungeon' definitions:
Definition of 'dungeon'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Dungeon'
From: GCIDE
- Dungeon \Dun"geon\, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'dungeon'
From: GCIDE
- dungeon \dun"geon\ (d[u^]n"j[u^]n), n. [OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See Dame, Don, and cf. Dominion, Domain, Demesne, Danger, Donjon.] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. [1913 Webster]
- Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dungeon'
From: Easton
- Dungeon different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Gen. 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; Jer. 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matt. 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matt. 18:30).
Synonyms of 'dungeon'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bastille,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- donjon,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- stronghold,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- vault