prison cell

English

A prison cell

Noun

prison cell (plural prison cells)

1. The room to which a prisoner is confined in a prison.

Translations

room to which a prisoner is confined

• Catalan: cel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牢房 (zh) (láofáng), 囚室 (zh) (qiúshì)

• Danish: fængselscelle (da) c
• Dutch: cel (nl)
• Finnish: selli (fi)
• French: cellule (fr) f (often used without adding "de prison")
• German: Gefängniszelle (de) f
• Greek: κελί φυλακής n (kelí fylakís)
• Hungarian: börtöncella (hu)
• Macedonian: за́творска ќе́лија f (zátvorska ḱélija)
• Maori: herenga, rūma herenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fengselscelle m or f

  Nynorsk: fengselscelle f

• Polish: cela (pl) f
• Portuguese: cela (pt) f
• Russian: тюре́мная ка́мера f (tjurémnaja kámera)
• Slovak: cela (sk), väzenská cela
• Spanish: celda (es) f, calabozo (es) m
• Swedish: fängelsecell (sv) c, cell (sv) c
• Walloon: gayole (wa) f, amigo (wa) m (local prison)

See also

• cellblock
• holding cell
• jail cell

Further reading

• “prison cell”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.