confinement

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪnmənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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

Derived terms

• anticonfinement
• bioconfinement
• confinement loaf
• confinement time
• deconfinement
• energy confinement time
• expected date of confinement
• nanoconfinement
• nonconfinement
• postconfinement
• preconfinement
• reconfinement
• self-confinement
• solitary confinement
• unconfinement

Translations

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 Marathi: बंदिवास (bandīvāsa) 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

Bulgarian: раждане n (raždane) Chinese: Mandarin: 坐月子 (zh) (zuòyuèzi) Greek: τοκετός (el) m (toketós) Macedonian: породу́вање n (porodúvanje) Malay: pantang (ms), pramurawat Russian: ро́ды (ru) pl (ródy) Yiddish: קימפּעט f (kimpet)

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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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

Antonyms

• déconfinement

See also

• quarantaine
• isolement

Further reading

• “confinement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.