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confinement   (Sound)

KK Pronunciation

〔 -mәnt 〕

Pronunciation

〔 -mәnt 〕


Overview of noun confinement

The noun confinement has 4 senses


  • parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours")

  • confinement -- (the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them)

  • confinement -- (the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement")

  • restriction, confinement -- (the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area")