confinement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state of being confined

   They were held in confinement.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of confining or the state of being confined.

   “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.

3. 3
   noun

   Lying-in, time of giving birth.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

5. 5
   noun

   the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

6. 6
   noun

   concluding state of pregnancy

7. 7
   noun

   lockdown

Etymology

Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.