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cellblock
This term is specific to correctional facilities and carries a sterile, institutional connotation. It describes a structural unit of confinement, evoking images of long corridors, heavy steel doors, and strict surveillance. It is primarily used in legal, journalistic, or narrative contexts involving prisons.
While the word is a compound of cell and block, it functions as a single semantic unit. In common usage, it refers to the entire wing or section rather than a single cell, distinguishing the larger architectural zone from the individual living quarters of an inmate.
Meanings
A section of a prison that contains a group of individual cells for inmates.
The guards conducted a surprise inspection of cellblock C.
Examples
The guards marched the new inmates down the long corridor of cellblock C.
I can't believe I'm spending the next five years in this cellblock.
The detective noted that the riot had started in the east cellblock.
The old stone walls of the cellblock felt damp and cold.
Silence fell over the entire cellblock as the warden entered.
He wondered if he would ever leave this concrete cellblock.