confinement
English edit
Etymology edit
From French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)
- The act of confining or the state of being confined.
- (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.
- 1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629:
- In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers:
- At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.
- lockdown
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
state of being confined
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lying-in
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Further reading edit
- “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French edit
Etymology edit
From confiner (“to confine”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
confinement m (plural confinements)
- confinement
- the act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine
- Synonym: mise en quarantaine
- quarantine
- lockdown
- être en confinement ― to be in lockdown, under lockdown
- containment
- enceinte de confinement ― containment building
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “confinement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.