CONFINEMENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does confinement mean?
• CONFINEMENT (noun)
The noun CONFINEMENT has 3 senses:
1. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
2. the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
3. the state of being confined
Familiarity information: CONFINEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CONFINEMENT (noun)
Meaning:
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
childbed; confinement; lying-in; parturiency; travail; labour; labor
Context example:
she was in labor for six hours
Hypernyms ("confinement" is a kind of...):
birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)
Meronyms (parts of "confinement"):
uterine contraction (a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal)
effacement (shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor)
asynclitism; obliquity (the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confinement"):
premature labor; premature labour (labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation)
Holonyms ("confinement" is a part of...):
gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
Meaning:
The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("confinement" is a kind of...):
restraint (the of act controlling by restraining someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confinement"):
imprisonment; internment (the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison))
house arrest (confinement to your own home)
commitment; committal; consignment (the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital))
Meaning:
The state of being confined
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
he was held in confinement
Hypernyms ("confinement" is a kind of...):
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confinement"):
constraint; restraint (the state of being physically constrained)
captivity; immurement; imprisonment; incarceration (the state of being imprisoned)
custody; detainment; detention; hold (a state of being confined (usually for a short time))
solitary; solitary confinement (confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners)
