Meanings
plural confinements
- countableuncountableThe act of confining or the state of being confined.
“A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.
2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN - countabledateduncountableLying-in, time of giving birth.
At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.
1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers1 more example
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.
1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629 - countableuncountablelockdown
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
nounconcluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
nounthe act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchconfinement
- Englishconfinement
Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian ограничение, раждане
- ограничение (ograničenie)state of being confined
- раждане (raždane)lying-in
Catalan confinament
- confinamentstate of being confined
Chinese Mandarin 監禁 /监禁, 坐月子
- 監禁 /监禁 (jiānjìn)state of being confined
- 坐月子 (zuòyuèzi)lying-in
Czech zajetí
- zajetístate of being confined
Finnish eristys, vankeus
- eristysstate of being confined
- vankeusstate of being confined
French confinement
- confinementstate of being confined
Greek φυλάκιση, τοκετός
- φυλάκιση (fylákisi)state of being confined
- τοκετός (toketós)lying-in
Italian confinamento
- confinamentostate of being confined
Japanese 監禁
- 監禁state of being confined
Korean 갇힘, 얽매임
- 갇힘 (gachim)state of being confined
- 얽매임 (eongmaeim)state of being confined
- 속박 (sokbak)state of being confined
- 구금 (gugeum)state of being confined
- 감금 (gamgeum)state of being confined
Latin inclūsiō
- inclūsiōstate of being confined
Malay pengurungan, pantang
- pengurunganstate of being confined
- pantanglying-in
- pramurawatlying-in
Māori mauheretanga, hamarurutanga
- mauheretangastate of being confined
- hamarurutangastate of being confined
Portuguese confinamento
- confinamentostate of being confined
Russian заключе́ние, заточение
- заключе́ние (zaključénije)state of being confined
- заточение (zatočenije)state of being confined
- ограниче́ние (ograničénije)state of being confined
- ро́ды (ródy)lying-in
Spanish confinamiento
- confinamientostate of being confined
Ukrainian ув'язнення
- ув'язнення (uvʺjaznennja)state of being confined
Yiddish קימפּעט
- קימפּעט (kimpet)lying-in
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with confinement
Cite this entry
confinement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confinement
“confinement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confinement. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “confinement,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confinement.
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