'Bastille' definitions:
Definition of 'Bastille'
(from WordNet)
noun
A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
noun
A jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
Definition of 'Bastille'
From: GCIDE
- Bastile \Bas*tile"\ Bastille \Bas*tille"\(b[.a]s*t[=e]l" or b[.a]s"t[-e]l; 277), n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to build, F. b[^a]tir.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. [1913 Webster]
- The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bastille'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- bucket,
- caboose,
- calaboose,
- can,
- cell,
- chokey,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- confine,
- constrain,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- hoosegow,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- immure,
- incarcerate,
- industrial school,
- intern,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- jug,
- 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,
- quod,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school