prisión

Meaning

prison (a place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government)

Hyphenated as

pri‧sión

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɾiˈsjon/

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin prehēnsiōnem. Cf. French prison, Portuguese prisão. Doublet of prensión.

Sentences

Mas , nunca lo enviaron a prisión por sus opiniones .

But, he was never sent to prison for his opinions.

Fue declarado culpable y sentenciado a dos años de prisión .

He was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison.

Allí quedó encarcelado en la prisión de Wadsworth, en las fueras de Londres .

There he was imprisoned in Wadsworth Prison, on the outskirts of London.