HOUSE OF CORRECTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences
   Hypernyms(s) house of correction is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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