confinement

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English

Etymology

From French confinement. By surface analysis, confine +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kənˈfaɪnmənt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: con‧fine‧ment
  • Rhymes: -aɪnmənt

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

  1. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
  2. (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.
    Synonyms: labour, birthing
    • 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.
  3. lockdown

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French

Etymology

From confiner (“to confine”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

Noun

confinement m (plural confinements)

  1. confinement
  2. the act of quarantining, of putting into quarantine
    Synonym: mise en quarantaine
  3. quarantine
  4. lockdown
    être en confinement ― to be in lockdown, under lockdown
  5. containment
    enceinte de confinement ― containment building

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