confinement

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

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪnmənt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧fine‧ment
• Rhymes: -aɪnmənt

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fin.mɑ̃/

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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

• déconfinement

• quarantaine
• isolement

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