oubliette

noun

Definition of oubliettenext
as in dungeon

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Recent Examples of oubliette One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls. — Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oubliette
  1. dungeon
  2. prison
  3. jail
  4. penitentiary
  5. jailhouse
  6. calaboose
  7. bastille
  8. stockade
Noun
  • And, finally, new dungeons are being peppered throughout the new DLC zone to incentivize you to explore every nook and cranny.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Plumbing-the-depths-of-your-soul kind of thing, and going into the dungeon and fighting the dragon and coming back with the gold.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of dungeon
Noun
  • The jury did convict Rosado of driving under the influence and he was sentenced to five years in prison, but Rosado has been behind bars on a $2 million bail since 2021 so won't have to serve any additional time.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Over the course of Exile, one of Loktev’s subjects is poisoned; another receives a five-year prison sentence in absentia.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of prison
Noun
  • He was given an option to bypass jail by paying a $250 fine and providing the filings within a week.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Castro was released from a Texas jail last week after a judge declined to order his return to Minnesota.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • Beginning in 1908, after federal prisons opened in Atlanta, Georgia, and Leavenworth, Kansas, most federal prisoners were sent to these new federal prisons, and cells began to empty at the West Virginia state penitentiary.
    — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Recent spike in inmate deaths at the penitentiary In fiscal year 2025 – July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025 – the DOC reported 19 deaths within its annual report, the most in a decade.
    — TJ Rhodes, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of penitentiary
Noun
  • Remember those jailhouse informants who claimed Kezer had confessed?
    — Peter Henderson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Wright was cited in July by Davis in a jailhouse interview as a possible person who actually orchestrated Shakur’s killing.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of jailhouse
Noun
  • Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.
    — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
Definition of calaboose
Noun
  • For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille.
    — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
Definition of bastille
Noun
  • At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of stockade

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“Oubliette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oubliette. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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