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house of correction

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables
house- of -cor-rec-tion
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.

British usage

noun

A prison.

American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

houses of correction (plural)

Phrases

approved school

Frequently Paired Words

approved school poorhouse prison reformatory

Questions

What does house of correction mean?
A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.

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