prison cell• It had only one room, and one window, which was heavily barred, like a prison cell.• It wasn't like a prison cell, it-was like a maid's room, Eve told herself firmly.• The cell where he was held was, like a prison cell in a spaghettiwestern, built of mud.• Nadia's winning work in her age-group showed a prison cell with doors thrown open, depictingfreedom.• Kaczynski was scheduled to begin seven days of mentaltestsSaturday in his Dublin prison cell.• More than a dozen activists have locked themselves inside a mockprison cell they put up outside the federalInteriorMinistry here.• They are part of a nationwideoperation which has cost millions of pounds after the disturbances which destroyed hundreds of prison cells.• They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now.
From Longman Business Dictionary
cellcell /sel/ noun [countableC usually singular]
TELECOMMUNICATIONSa cell phone
Origincell
(1100-1200)Old Frenchcelle, from Latincella“small room”