Synonyms for Jails:

• n.

  •enclosures (noun)
  • enclosures,
  • cages,
  • Pens,
  • Traps,
  • fences,
  • barriers,
  • confinements,
  • Cells.
  •prisons (noun)
  • vises,
  • oubliettes,
  • coops,
  • jailhouses,
  • coolers,
  • reform schools,
  • gaols,
  • stockades,
  • lockups,
  • pinions,
  • Penitentiaries,
  • brigs,
  • penal colonies,
  • strongholds,
  • irons,
  • reformatories,
  • dungeons,
  • keeps,
  • pounds.
  •punishment devices (noun)
  • truncheons,
  • stakes,
  • gallows,
  • whips,
  • whipping posts,
  • blocks,
  • Prisons,
  • straps,
  • rawhides,
  • bull whips,
  • switches,
  • captivities,
  • stocks,
  • electric chairs,
  • rods,
  • iron,
  • solitary confinements,
  • gibbets,
  • torture chambers,
  • Pillories,
  • lashes,
  • thongs,
  • Axes,
  • scaffolds,
  • cowhides,
  • guillotines,
  • racks,
  • nooses,
  • birch rods,
  • thumbscrews,
  • maidens,
  • gas chambers,
  • Canes,
  • ropes.

Paraphrases for Jails:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, plural
    Prisons.
  • Noun, plural
    gaols, imprisons.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, plural
    Penitentiaries.
  • Proper noun, singular
    arrest, arrests, detains, detain, catches, capture, captures, seizes, nabs, seize, nab, hold, holds.
  • Noun, plural
    imprisoned, detentions, sentences, inmates, arrestees, Facilities, establishments, detainees, demolitions, residences, dwellings, quarters, premises, publishers, lock-ups, barracks, officials, channels, Colonies, chains, Guards, institutions, maisons, CAMPS, courts, cachots, bars, centers, centres, Houses, dungeons, ranges, places, homes, hubs, arrests, detains, captures, Penitentiaries.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    imprisons.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    prison, Prisons, imprisonment, penitentiary, Penitentiaries.
  • Noun, plural
    imprisonments, prisoners, prison, Prisons, Cells.

Jails Sentence Examples:

• Two jails have also been erected in the colony.

• On the 2nd of September these slaughter - houses were as full as they could hold, and about a hundred ruffians, armed with axes and guns, were sent round to all the jails to do the bloody work.