Definition: Penitentiary Meaning in English to Urdu is توبہ گاہ, as written in Urdu and Touba Gaah, as written in Roman Urdu. There are many synonyms of Penitentiary which include Campus, Can, College, Cooler, Inside, Joint, Lockup, Pen, Reformatory, Stockade, Penal Institution, Slammer, Prison, Big House, Correctional Institution, etc.
adj
. Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
adj
. Expressive of penitence.
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. Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
n
. One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
n
. One who does penance.
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. A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
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. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
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. An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
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. An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
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. A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor; a prison; a jail. Colloquially often shortened to pen.
Form
Noun, Plural Penitentiaries.
How To Spell Penitentiary
[pen-i-ten-shuh-ree]
Origin of Penitentiary
Late Middle English (as a term in ecclesiastical law): from medieval Latin paenitentiarius, from Latin paenitentia ‘repentance’. The North American usage dates from the early 19th century.
Urdu Meaning
Find the correct meaning of Penitentiary in Urdu, it is important to understand the word properly when we translate it from English to Urdu.
There are always several meanings of each word in Urdu, the correct meaning of Penitentiary in Urdu is توبہ گاہ, and in roman we write it Touba Gaah.
The other meanings are Touba Gaah and Islaah Ki Jagah.
Penitentiary is an noun, plural penitentiaries according to parts of speech.
It finds its origins in Late Middle English (as a term in ecclesiastical law): from medieval Latin paenitentiarius, from Latin paenitentia ‘repentance’.
The North American usage dates from the early 19th century.
There are also several similar words to Penitentiary in our dictionary, which are Campus, Can, College, Cooler, Inside, Joint, Lockup, Pen, Reformatory, Stockade, Penal Institution, Slammer, Prison, Big House and Correctional Institution.
Penitentiary is spelled as [pen-i-ten-shuh-ree].
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توبہ گاہ
Penitentiary