confines

• Noun:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnfaɪnz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfaɪnz/
• Verb:
  • IPA^(key): /kənˈfaɪnz/
• Rhymes: -aɪnz

confines pl (plural only)

1. The borders or limits of an area.
   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

     It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.

2. Elements that restrain someone.
   • 2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in RAIL, page 46:

     "I think that there comes a point where people begin to get bored within their own confines, so there is definitely an opportunity to encourage travel - even though it will be a different sort of arrangement than we've been used to in the past.

3. The scope or range of a subject.

confines

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of confine

confines

1. second-person singular present indicative of confinar

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fin/
• Homophones: confine, confinent

confines

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of confiner

confines

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of confinar

cōnfīnēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine plural of cōnfīnis

• "confines", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

confines

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of confinar

confines

1. plural of confín

confines

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of confinar