Meaning of "gaol" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF GAOL

gaol  [dʒeɪl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAOL

Gaol is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gaol in English.

WHAT DOES GAOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prison

A prison or jail is a facility in which individuals are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment. The most common use of prisons is as part of a criminal justice system, in which individuals officially charged with or convicted of crimes are confined to a jail or prison until they are either brought to trial to determine their guilt or complete the period of incarceration they were sentenced to after being found guilty at their trial. Outside of their use for punishing civil crimes, authoritarian regimes also frequently use prisons and jails as tools of political repression to punish political crimes, often without trial or other legal due process; this use is illegal under most forms of international law governing fair administration of justice. In times of war or conflict, prisoners of war may also be detained in military prisons or prisoner of war camps, and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned in internment camps.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GAOL

PRESENT

Present

I gaol

you gaol

he/she/it gaols

we gaol

you gaol

they gaol

Present continuous

I am gaoling

you are gaoling

he/she/it is gaoling

we are gaoling

you are gaoling

they are gaoling

Present perfect

I have gaoled

you have gaoled

he/she/it has gaoled

we have gaoled

you have gaoled

they have gaoled

Present perfect continuous

I have been gaoling

you have been gaoling

he/she/it has been gaoling

we have been gaoling

you have been gaoling

they have been gaoling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I gaoled

you gaoled

he/she/it gaoled

we gaoled

you gaoled

they gaoled

Past continuous

I was gaoling

you were gaoling

he/she/it was gaoling

we were gaoling

you were gaoling

they were gaoling

Past perfect

I had gaoled

you had gaoled

he/she/it had gaoled

we had gaoled

you had gaoled

they had gaoled

Past perfect continuous

I had been gaoling

you had been gaoling

he/she/it had been gaoling

we had been gaoling

you had been gaoling

they had been gaoling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will gaol

you will gaol

he/she/it will gaol

we will gaol

you will gaol

they will gaol

Future continuous

I will be gaoling

you will be gaoling

he/she/it will be gaoling

we will be gaoling

you will be gaoling

they will be gaoling

Future perfect

I will have gaoled

you will have gaoled

he/she/it will have gaoled

we will have gaoled

you will have gaoled

they will have gaoled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been gaoling

you will have been gaoling

he/she/it will have been gaoling

we will have been gaoling

you will have been gaoling

they will have been gaoling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would gaol

you would gaol

he/she/it would gaol

we would gaol

you would gaol

they would gaol

Conditional continuous

I would be gaoling

you would be gaoling

he/she/it would be gaoling

we would be gaoling

you would be gaoling

they would be gaoling

Conditional perfect

I would have gaol

you would have gaol

he/she/it would have gaol

we would have gaol

you would have gaol

they would have gaol

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been gaoling

you would have been gaoling

he/she/it would have been gaoling

we would have been gaoling

you would have been gaoling

they would have been gaoling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you gaol
we let´s gaol
you gaol

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to gaol

Past participle

gaoled

Present Participle

gaoling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GAOL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gaol» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of gaol

boob · borstal · brig · calaboose · can · choky · clink · confine · confinement · constrain · cooler · detain · dungeon · glasshouse · immure · impound · imprison · incarcerate · inside · intern · jailhouse · jug · lock up · lockup · nick · penitentiary · pound · prison · put away · quod · reformatory · send down · slammer · stir

TRANSLATION OF GAOL

Find out the translation of gaol to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gaol from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gaol» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 监狱
• Translator English - Spanish: cárcel
• English: gaol
• Translator English - Hindi: जेल
• Translator English - Arabic: جول
• Translator English - Russian: тюрьма
• Translator English - Portuguese: prisão
• Translator English - Bengali: জেল
• Translator English - French: prison
• Translator English - Malay: Gaol
• Translator English - German: Gefängnis
• Translator English - Japanese: 刑務所
• Translator English - Korean: 감옥
• Translator English - Javanese: Gaol
• Translator English - Vietnamese: trại giam
• Translator English - Tamil: கோலுக்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: Gaol
• Translator English - Turkish: hapis
• Translator English - Italian: carcere
• Translator English - Polish: więzienie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: в´язниця
• Translator English - Romanian: închisoare
• Translator English - Greek: φυλακή
• Translator English - Afrikaans: tronk
• Translator English - Swedish: gaol
• Translator English - Norwegian: fengsel

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAOL»

Discover the use of gaol in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gaol and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.

Oscar Wilde, 1999

Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol: A Mystery

Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger.

Gyles Brandreth, 2013

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde. Ballad of Reading Gaol ()scar Wilde Start Classics The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde. Front Cover.

Oscar Wilde, 2014

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

The. Ballad. of. Reading. Gaol. and. Other. Poems. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, his father an eminent eye-surgeon and his mother a nationalist poet who wrote under the pseudonym 'Speranza'. He went to  ...

Oscar Wilde, 2010

Pit of Shame: The Real Ballad of Reading Gaol

' All this is enhanced by fascinating period detail from archives, newspapers, and records. The appendices include a list of all executions at Reading Gaol, the historic Dietary Requirements, and Prison Rules.

Anthony Stokes, 2007

Scenes where the Tempter has triumphed. By the author of ...

I have been chaplain of the gaol of this' county for nearly a quarter of a century, and of course have seen much of crime and of criminals of every grade ; but I have never seen one that could be, in any way, compared with Rush. He may be said ...

‎1862

Statute law repeals: eighteenth report, draft Statute Law ...

2.21 Only a year after securing the 1787 Act, the justices decided that it would be better to build the new gaol complex on a separate site within the city, rather than build the gaol on the existing site. A site was acquired in St. David's parish and ...

‎2008

Our Present Gaol System Deeply Depraving to the Prisoner and ...

The hope, therefore, is entertained, with regard to this gaol, that the importance will be seen of adopting the principle of separation in its integrity ; for it will be found (as it ever has been, in every system of penal treatment), that one departure ...

Joseph Adshead, 1847

Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain: Comprising Recollections of ...

Comprising Recollections of Ministerial Intercourse with Criminals of Various Classes, with Their Confessions Erskine Neale. parish priest, when faithfully and efficiently discharged, must bring him into close communion with the poor, both ...

Erskine Neale, 1849

The Jurist

Middlesex, carpenter: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. — Wm. Osman the younger, Waterloo -street, Cam- berwell, Surrey, out of business : in the Gaol of Surrey. — R. Seaborn, Denmark-street, Camberwell, Surrey, builder : in ...

‎1848

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gaol is used in the context of the following news items.

National Gallery and Guinness Storehouse top visitor lists

Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, which featured in the top ten in 2013 with 326,207 visitors, did not make the 2014 list. Minister of State for Transport ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»

League | John Hopoate shares moving moment on his way to jail …

"On my way to visit my son in gaol today. I picked up this very lucky couple who survived this crash," Hopoate wrote. Posted by John Hopoate ... «Sportal.com.au, Jul 15»

Everything You Need To Know About Polarising Camera Filters …

Let's imagine that this polariser has a bunch of vertical bars — kind of like a gaol cell — and let's say the light coming from the sky is travelling ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»

Moving adaptation to take to the stage in Bedworth | Nuneaton News

This was a letter written by Oscar Wilde from his prison cell in Reading Gaol to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, after he was sentenced for gross ... «Nuneaton News, Jul 15»

Asisat Oshoala: Super Falcons forward scores as Liverpool beat …

Liverpool Ladies opened scoring through Fara William before doubling their lead through a Becky Easton gaol in the second half. «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»

Flashback: A loveable yet possibly murderous rogue

Joseph John Pawelka in 1911 escaped from the Terrace Gaol in Wellington and remains one of just two prison escapees in New Zealand ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»

From the archive, 11 July 1977: General Zia steps back to law of knife

... humanely adds: “The amputation shall be done by a qualified surgeon under local anaesthesia, in public, or in gaol, as directed by the court.”. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

'heart of the underground music scene,' closes - Ottawa Citizen

Mugshots branded itself as “Ottawa's only jail bar,” found inside the 150-year-old former Carleton County Gaol. The historical building and its ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»

Man denies Castletown vandalism spree

Andrews will now be committed to stand trial at the Court of General Gaol Delivery - he will next appear in court on September 3rd. Bookmark ... «Energy FM, Jul 15»

A Glimpse Behind the Bars At Huron County's Historic Gaol

Education and Programming Assistant Sinead Cox explains this event has been staged for more than ten years in various forms, but for the last ... «BlackburnNews.com, Jul 15»