gaol vs jail
Definitions
noun
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Examples
She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor.
A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
He could wind up in gaol.
Definitions
noun
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Examples
She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor.
A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
Britain's worst jail riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
