Synonym: pen. Similar words: penitent, impenitent, penitence, potential, potentially, sequential, essential, essentially. Meaning: [‚penɪ'tenʃərɪ] 
n. a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes. adj. used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers.
n. a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes. adj. used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers. 
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(31) She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
(32) We remain skeptical here, but also open to the possibility that the First Law of Thermodynamics has been as thoroughly violated as a white collar worker in a federal penitentiary.
(33) While he was in the penitentiary her father died and the family broke up.
(34) The hotel lies back of a dingy passage and forms a rectangle very a modern penitentiary.
(35) Now , you remember when you went to visit my pop in Lewisburg Penitentiary?
(36) You want to spend the next 20 years in a federal penitentiary, starting tonight?
(37) Fox River Penitentiary is an old prison. Guard towers and forbidding razor wire line the perimeter.
(38) Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
More similar words: penitent, impenitent, penitence, potential, potentially, sequential, essential, essentially, tangential, residential, deferential, influential, finite element, pestilential, deferentially, preferential, presidential, essentiality, consequential, attention, intention, differentiate, distention, contentious, pretentious, pay attention to, pretentiousness, a bone of contention, diary, auxiliary.