confinement
pronunciation
How to pronounce confinement in British English:
UK [kənˈfaɪnmənt]
How to pronounce confinement in American English:
US [kənˈfaɪnmənt]
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- Noun:
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
- the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- the state of being confined
Word Origin
- confinement (n.)
- 1590s, from French confinement (16c.; the Old French word was confinacion), from confiner (see confine). As a euphemism for "childbed" it dates from 1774 (the Middle English expression was Our Lady's bands).
Example
- 1. Extended solitary confinement is likely to induce either obsessive behavior or delirium .
- 2. He is currently under home confinement in new hampshire .
- 3. Hence the current longer-term plan , called the new safe confinement .
- 4. But power was its own kind of confinement .
- 5. Animals raised in confinement create an ideal setting for bacteria and disease to spread rapidly .