confinement - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.
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
state of being confined
- Bulgarian: ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
- Catalan: confinament (ca) m
- Czech: zajetí (cs) n
- French: confinement (fr) m
- Galician: confinamento (gl) m
- Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
- Italian: confinamento m
- Korean: 갇힘 n (gachim), 얽매임 n (eongmaeim), 속박 (ko) n (sokbak), 구금 (ko) (gugeum), 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
- Latin: inclūsiō f
- Macedonian: ограничу́вање n (ograničúvanje), затво́рање n (zatvóranje), заклучу́вање n (zaklučúvanje)
- Malay: pengurungan
- Maori: mauheretanga (As a prisoner), hamarurutanga
- Occitan: confinament (oc) m
- Portuguese: confinamento (pt) m
- Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije), заточение (ru) n (zatočenije), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
- Spanish: confinamiento (es) m
- Tocharian B: prutkālñe
lying-in
- “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
From confiner (“to confine”) + -ment.
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
- “confinement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.