Without article, frequently preceded by a preposition, as to prison, in prison. Originally: the condition of being kept in captivity or…

Care or charge of a prisoner; the condition of being a prisoner; custody, imprisonment. Now rare.

The action of prison, v.; imprisonment, confinement.

Confinement, imprisonment; prison. Obsolete.

The action of imprisoning, or fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a prison or place of confinement; close or irksome confinement…

The action or an act of imprisoning; the fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a prison or place of confinement; = imprisonment, n.…

Without the article, as in the phrases ‘to send to jail’, ‘in jail’, ‘let out of jail’: = imprisonment, confinement in prison.

Scottish. The condition of being imprisoned; confinement. Obsolete.

Imprisonment. Scottish.

The state or condition of being confined; confinement, imprisonment; chiefly in phrase: (to keep, put) in firmance. Also concrete. An enclosure.

The action of incarcerating or fact of being incarcerated; imprisonment.

transferred and figurative. Prison, confinement, durance; also, †pawn. slang.

A prison; = limbo, n.1 2a. Obsolete.

Durance, captivity, imprisonment. Obsolete.

The action or an act of restraining someone (esp. a violent criminal or mentally ill person) using such means; the state of being so restrained.

Imprisonment, incarceration.

Euphemistically used for: imprisonment.

(confinement in) a cell or detention barracks; esp. in to do Paddy Doyle.

British slang. A prison sentence, time spent in prison; (also) prison. Now frequently in to do bird: to spend time in prison for an offence, to do…