Gaol

Definitions: Gaol

Gaol

Noun

1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).

Verb

1. Lock up in jail.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gaol" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gaol

Deliverance

Noun: deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Crosswords: Gaol

Irish (relation), Scottish (beloved object, fondness, love).

Gaol Break (1936)

The Gaol (1988)

Ballad of Reading Gaol (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• De Profundis, the Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poetry (reference)

• De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings (reference)

• Hastings Gaol Records: Prisoners Committed, 1832-1841 (reference)

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Journeyman Chapbook, No. 1) (reference)

• The English Bastille: a history of Newgate Gaol and prison conditions in Britain, 1188-1902 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Old Gaol Gazette (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Mairidh Gaol is Ceol (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "gaol": clap into gaol ♦ Commission of general gaol delivery ♦ gaol delivery. Additional references.

Beginning with "gaol": gaol-bird, gaol-fees, gaol-fever, gaol-keeper.

Albanian

futje në burg, burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod, stir). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, segregation, sequester, taboo). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хвърлям в затвора (constrain, imprison, jail), тъмница (dungeon, jail), затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade, stopper), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off). (various references)

Czech

vìznice (jail), vìzení (confinement, jail, lockup, pound, prison, prison house, retention, round house, roundhouse), uvìznit (confine, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail), kriminál (clink, jail, Nick), žalář (dungeon, jail, prison). (various references)

Danish

fængsel (jail, prison). (various references)

Dutch

kerker (cell, jail, prison), gevangenis (jail, prison, prison for convicts sentenced to solitary confinement and hard labour), nor (jail, prison). (various references)

Esperanto

prizono (jail, prison), malliberulejo (jail, prison), malliberejo (jail, prison). (various references)

Faeroese

fongsul (prison). (various references)

Farsi 

محبس (Calaboose, Dungeon, Jail, Prison), زندان (Calaboose, Coop, Dungeon, Grate, Jail, Presidio, Prison). (various references)

Finnish

vankila (convict station, jail, joutua, nick, prison, reformatory station). (various references)

French

prison, geôle (gaoler). (various references)

Frisian

finzenis (prison). (various references)

German

Gefängnis (convict station, imprisonment, jail, jail house, jailhouse, penal establishment, penal institution, penitentiary, prison, reformatory station, sentence of imprisonment), Kerker (dungeon, dungeons, imprisonment, jail, oubliette, prison). (various references)

Greek 

φυλακή (bagnio, brig, calaboose, clink, cooler, coop, hock, hoosegow, jail, jail house, jug, penal establishment, penal institution, prison, quod, stir, watch), φυλακίζω (cage, commit to prison, confine, coop up, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail), ειρκτή (jail, prison). (various references)

Hungarian

fegyház (big house, jail, penitentiary, zoo), fogház (detention house, jail, prison), börtön (can, cells, confine, coop, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, jug, limbo, lockup, penitentiary, prison, prison house, quad, quod, stir, stockade). (various references)

Italian

prigione (bastille, calaboose, clink, coop, dungeon, imprisonment, jail, prison, quod), carcere (can, jail, oubliette, penitentiary, prison). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牢屋 (jail). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろうや (jail, old man, one's boss, one's father). (various references)

Manx

pryssoonaghey (confine, detain, imprison, incarcerate), pryssoon (brig, glasshouse, jail, lock up, penitentiary, prison), cur ayns pryssoon (imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail), cur ayns carchyr. (various references)

Norwegian

fengsel (jail, prison). (various references)

Papiamen

prizon (prison), prizòn (prison), prison (prison), piskalat (prison). (various references)

Pig Latin

aolgay.(various references)

Portuguese

prisão (accouchement, apprehension, arrest, bastille, bond, cage, captivity, choky, confinement, constrained, custody, detention, during, entente, ex, improbability, jail, jug, limbo, noose, pokey, prison, quad, quod), cadeia (cage, calaboose, cascade, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, jail, jug, network, orlop, penitentiary, pokey, prison, prison house, quad, quod, shackle, stockade, ward, warp), cárcere (calaboose, jail, prison). (various references)

Romanian

întemniţa (hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, lock up, pound, prison, secure). (various references)

Russian 

тюрьма (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, jail, jug, lockup, pit, pound, prison, prison house, quod, slammer, stone-jug). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tamnica (dungeon, prison). (various references)

Spanish

prisión (arrest, confinement, imprisonment, jail, prison). (various references)

Sranan

dungr'oso (prison). (various references)

Swahili

jela (prison). (various references)

Swedish

fängelse (bagnio, calaboose, can, clink, hold, imprisonment, jail, jailhouse, jug, limbo, Nick, pen, penitentiary, prison, prison house). (various references)

Tagalog

piítan (prison), bilanggúan (prison), bilíbid (prison). (various references)

Thai

คุก (calaboose, chokey, hold, lockup, nick), จำคุก (jail). (various references)

Turkish

kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, hole, jail, jug, pen, prison, quod, stir), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward), hapis (charge, confinement, duress, imprisonment, jail, prison). (various references)

Ukranian 

ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, pound, prison, quod), ув'язнення (confinement, constraint, custody, duress, duresse, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, ward), в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, jail, limbo, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, slammer, ward). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bỏ tù (imprisonment, incarceration), nh� tù (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, chaplain, college, held, hold, prison, prison-house, rogue house), nh� giam (bagnio, cage, clink, prison, prison-house, tolbooth, tollbooth). (various references)

phylaca. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gaol": gaoled, gaoler, gaolers, gaoling, gaols. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goal.

-1 letter: ago, gal, goa, lag, log.

-2 letters: ag, al, go, la, lo.

+1 letter: aglow, algor, along, argol, galop, gaols, gloam, gloat, goals, goral, largo, logan, logia.

+2 letters: agonal, algoid, algors, analog, apolog, argols, dialog, flagon, galago, galiot, gallon, gallop, galoot, galops, galore, galosh, gambol, gaoled, gaoler, gelato, glamor, glioma, gloams, gloats, global, gloria, glossa, goaled, goalie, gooral, gorals, kalong, lagoon, lanugo, lapdog, largos, latigo, legato, logans, loggia, logjam, logway, longan, lovage, ogival, otalgy, rugola, sawlog, slogan.

+3 letters: aerogel, agelong, aglycon, airglow, allegro, allonge, analogs, analogy, antilog, apogeal, apologs, apology, arugola, backlog, bologna, catalog, clangor, coagula, coaling, collage, congeal, coxalgy, daglock, dayglow, daylong, decalog, dialogs, dongola, eulogia, flagons, flotage, flowage, foaling, foliage, galagos, galiots, galipot, galleon, galliot, gallons, galloon, galloot, gallops, gallous, gallows, galoots, galoped, galores, galoshe, gambols, gaolers, gaoling, garboil, gasohol, gelatos, geoidal, girasol, glamors, glamour, gliomas, gloated, gloater, globate, glomera, glorias, glossae, glossal, glossas, glottal, goalies, goaling, goldarn, goliard, gomeral, gonadal, gondola, goorals, gorilla, goulash, granola, halogen, haloing, hidalgo, kalongs, lagoons, languor, lanugos, lapdogs, latigos, legator, legatos, loading, loafing, loaming, loaning, lockage, logania, loggats, loggias, logical, logjams, logways, longans, lovages, lumbago, mangold, moulage, otalgia, otalgic, pergola, plugola, rugolas, sawlogs, slogans, soilage, subgoal, tangelo, tollage, valgoid, voltage, vorlage, zooglea.

+4 letters: aasvogel, aerogels, aerology, agalloch, agalwood, aglycone, aglycons, agrology, airglows, algaroba, algology, algorism, allegory, allegros, allogamy, allonges, allowing, alloying, alogical, although, amylogen, analogic, analogue, anglepod, angulose, angulous, antilogs, antilogy, apiology, apologal, apologia, apologue, areology, arugolas, axiology, backlogs, bargello, beglamor, bloating, blockage, bolognas, bungalow, cajoling, caroling, catalogs, clangors, clangour, cloaking, coagulum, collaged, collagen, collages, collegia, congeals, conjugal, coxalgia, coxalgic, daglocks, dayglows, decalogs, diagonal, dialoged, dialoger, dialogic, dialogue, dongolas, elongate, eulogiae, eulogias, flagpole, flamingo, flatlong, flexagon, floatage, floating, floorage, flotages, flowages, foliaged, foliages, galipots, galleons, galliots, gallipot, galloons, galloots, galloped, galloper, galopade, galoping, galoshed, galoshes, gamboled, ganglion, gangplow, gantlope, garboils, gardyloo, gargoyle, gasohols, gasolene, gasolier, gasoline, gatefold, gavelock, gelation, geraniol, gigaflop, girasole, girasols, glabrous, gladiola, gladioli, gladsome, glamours, glasnost, glaucoma, glaucous, gliomata, gloaming, gloaters, gloating, globally, globated, globular, glossary, glossina, gloxinia, glucagon, gnomical, goadlike, goalless, goalpost, goalward, goatlike, golconda, goldarns, golgotha, goliards, gomerals, gonadial, gondolas, gonfalon, gonidial, goofball, gorillas, granolas, growable, guaiacol, gyroidal, halloing, halogens, headlong, helotage, hidalgos, hollaing, hologamy, hologram, hooligan, hyalogen, hypogeal, idealogy, intaglio, isogonal, jargonel, kaoliang, kilogram, laboring, lagoonal, languors, largando, lassoing, latigoes, leapfrog, legation, legators, ligation, loadings, loanings, loathing, locating, lockages, logician, logogram, logomach, lollygag, longboat, longhair, longhand, longhead, longleaf, longways, lumbagos, magnolia, mangolds, mangonel, marigold, megalops, megavolt, mesoglea, moulages, nonglare, nonlegal, obligate, obligati, obligato, octangle, oligarch, oliguria, oogonial, original, otalgias, otalgies, outglare, outlaugh, overglad, pangolin, paroling, pergolas, pignolia, pilotage, playgoer, plottage, plugolas, plumbago, podagral, polkaing, polygala, polygamy, prodigal, regional, salvoing, seraglio, shoaling, shogunal, skoaling, soilages, solacing, solating, solidago, spoilage, subgoals, tagalong, tangelos, tollages, tollgate, totaling, travelog, trigonal, voltages, vorlages, waterlog, yearlong, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea.

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