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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902;


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Newgate n 1: a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902