Synonyms of bastilles

bastilles

noun

plural of bastille

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

were amazed by the squalid, cramped quarters in the town's historic bastille

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• penitentiaries
• prisons
• big houses
• brigs
• jailhouses
• tolbooths
• bridewells
• quods
• pens
• coolers
• hoosegows
• jugs
• stockades
• coops
• lockups
• calabooses
• hocks
• pokeys
• cans
• bull pens
• stirs
• tanks
• nicks
• cages
• guardrooms
• clinks
• joints
• slams
• slammers
• cells
• holds
• dungeons
• concentration camps
• labor camps
• holes
• work camps
• prison camps
• wards
• stalags
• guardhouses
• reform schools
• training schools
• hulks
• keeps
• blocks
• glasshouses
• gulags
• reformatories
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides