Gaol vs Dungeon - What's the difference?
gaol | dungeon |
(UK, Ireland, Australia)
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
(games) An area inhabited by enemies]], containing story objectives, treasure and [[boss, bosses.
As nouns the difference between gaol and dungeon
is that gaol is (uk|ireland|australia) while dungeon is an underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.As a verb gaol
is (british).gaol
English
(wikipedia gaol)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
Usage notes
Gaol'' was the more common spelling between about 1760 and 1830,https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gaol%2Cjail&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15 and is still preferred in proper names in some regions. Most Australian newspapers use (m) rather than ''gaol''''', citing either narrower print width or the possibility of transposing letters in ''gaol'' to produce ''goal''.'''1996 , Sally A. White, ''Reporting in Australia ,page 275
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* (l) * (l) ----dungeon
English
Noun
(wikipedia dungeon) (en noun)- Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon .