STOCKADE Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

stockade

noun

stä-ˈkād

Definition of stockade

as in penitentiary

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody prisoners of war confined in a stockade

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Recent Examples of stockade Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War. — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025 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, 3 Sep. 2024 Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta. — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for stockade

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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

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

Cruise ships have brigs – or onboard jails – where they may be held, or they could be confined to their cabins, The Points Guy reported.

— Nathan Diller, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Word around baseball is all the losing has turned the Mets clubhouse, which has already been fractured these past couple years, into a joyless brig.

— Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026

Definition of brig

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