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jailhouse

US/ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌhaʊs/

jailhouse noun: a building containing a prison.

Noun

jailhouse (plural jailhouses)

  1. A building containing a prison.
    • “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.2024 March 28, Lauren del Valle and Allison Morrow, “Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison”, in CNN Business

jailhouse meaning in Bengali

jailhouse in Bengali

ভবন যাতে কারাগার থাকে

Forms of jailhouse

pluraljailhouses

Origin of jailhouse

From jail + house.

Words formed from jailhouse

Phrases with jailhouse

Questions about jailhouse

What does jailhouse mean?
Jailhouse means a building containing a prison.
What is jailhouse in Bengali?
Jailhouse in Bengali is ভবন যাতে কারাগার থাকে. See Jailhouse meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is jailhouse?
Jailhouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce jailhouse?
Jailhouse is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪlˌhaʊs/ (US).
What is the plural of jailhouse?
The plural of jailhouse is jailhouses.

Words near jailhouse in the dictionary

  1. jailership
  2. jailerships
  3. jailfodder
  4. jailful
  5. jailfuls
  6. jailhouse
  7. jailhouse lawyer
  8. jailhouse lawyers
  9. jailhouses
  10. jailing
  11. jailings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jailhouse (page history and authors); jailhouse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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