confinement
US: /kənˈfaɪnmənt/
UK: /kənfˈaɪnmənt/
UK: /kənfˈaɪnmənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
confinement /kən'fainmənt/
- danh từ
- sự giam, sự giam hãm
- to be placed in confinement: bị giam
- close (solitary) confinement: sự giam riêng, sự giam xà lim
- sự hạn chế
- sự ở cữ, sự đẻ
- to be in confinement: ở cữ, đẻ
- sự giam, sự giam hãm
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] the state of being forced to stay in a closed space, prison, etc., the act of putting sb there: her confinement to a wheelchair + years of confinement as a political prisoner
See also -
2 [U, C] (formal or old-fashioned) the time when a woman gives birth to a baby: the expected date of confinement + a hospital / home confinement
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
close
The animals are kept in close confinement.
| solitary
VERB + CONFINEMENT
be held in, be kept in | be placed in, be put in
PREP.
in ~
He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.
| ~ to
their confinement to army barracks
Concise English dictionary
confinements-mənt
noun
+concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
+the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
+the state of being confined
