Meaning & use
prison cell
A small, locked room in a prison used to confine an inmate.
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He spent twenty years alone in a small prison cell before his release.
The prison cell had only a narrow bed and a single barred window.
A note on using this word
Prison cell refers to the individual room, while 'prison' refers to the entire facility containing many such cells.
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