Synonyms for confinement
Most common
child bed travail lying-in parturiency birthing parturition detention
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Travail — lying-in, time of giving birth
2. Labor
labor US, labour UK, birthing, parturition
3. Detention
detention, imprisonment, restraint, incarceration, restriction, captivity, custody, constraint, duress, limitation, circumscription, immurement
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Lying-in, time of giving birth.
- n. 2
The act of confining or the state of being confined.
- n. 3
lockdown
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- confinements → travails, lying-ins, labors, birthings…
Example sentences
- detention You just bought yourself another day of detention.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| confinement | falling | |
| detention | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- labor2
- 6 letters
- labour2, duress2
- 7 letters
- custody3, travail2
- 8 letters
- birthing2
- 9 letters
- detention3, restraint2, captivity4
- 10 letters
- limitation4, constraint2, immurement
- 11 letters
- restriction3, parturition, parturiency
- 12 letters
- imprisonment4
- 13 letters
- incarceration5
- 15 letters
- circumscription
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).