Search Result for "reform_school":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders;
[syn: reformatory, reform school, training school]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reform \Re*form"\, n. [F. r['e]forme.] Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. [1913 Webster] Civil service reform. See under Civil. Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] Syn: Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reform school n 1: correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders [syn: reformatory, reform school, training school]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "reform school": POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, borstal school, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reformatory, remand school, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school