Definitions of confinement [ənˈfaɪn mənt]

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Definition of 'confinement'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) confinement
the act of confining.

2. confinement
the state of being confined.

3. confinement
the lying-in of a woman in childbed; childbirth.

Etymology: (1640–50)

Definition of 'confinement'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"

2. (noun) confinement
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

3. (noun) confinement
the state of being confined
"he was held in confinement"

4. (noun) restriction, confinement
the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
"the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

Definition of 'confinement'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) confinement
restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion

2. (noun) confinement
restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in

Translation of 'confinement'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: state of being shut up or imprisoned solitary confinement.
Afrikaans: opsluiting, gevangenskap	Arabic: حَبْس، حَجْز، تَوْقيف	Bulgarian: затвор
Brazilian: confinamento	Czech: (u)věznění	German: die Haft
Danish: fangenskab; indespærring	Greek: φυλάκιση, εγκλεισμός	Spanish: reclusión
Estonian: vangistus	Farsi: حبس؛ بستری	Finnish: vankeus
French: emprisonnement	Hebrew: מַאֲסָר, רִיתוּק	Hindi: कैद
Croatian: zatočenje, stiješnjenost	Hungarian: fogság	Indonesian: penyekapan
Icelandic: innilokun, fangavist	Italian: confino, prigionia	Japanese: 監禁
Korean: 갇힘	Lithuanian: įkalinimas	Latvian: vieninieku kamera
Malay: pengurungan	Dutch: opsluiting	Norwegian: arrest, fangenskap, innes
Polish: uwięzienie, izolacja	Persian: حبس؛ بستری	Pashto: بندى
Portuguese: encarceramento	Romanian: închidere	Russian: заключение
Slovak: uväznenie	Slovenian: zapor	Serbian: zatočeništvo
Swedish: fångenskap, fängsligt för	Thai: การจำกัด	Turkish: kapatılma, hapsedilme
Taiwanese: 監禁	Ukrainian: ув'язнення	Urdu: قيد
Vietnamese: sự hạn chế; sự giam cầm	Chinese: 监禁
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