bastille vs prison

bastille and prison both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bastille	Yes	No	No	No
prison	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prison is a hypernym of bastille; that is, prison is a word with a broader meaning than bastille:

bastille: a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
prison: a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

Other hypernyms of bastille include clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer, prison house.

bastille (noun)	prison (noun)
a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)	a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
	a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement