Synonyms for custody
All synonyms
Noun
1. Detention
detention, confinement, detainment, hold, keep dated
Other
care, guardianship, safe-keeping, imprisonment, charge, charre UK, protection, keeping, ward, conservation
Definitions
- n. 1
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
The mother gained custody of the children.
Related words
- Word family
- custodial custodian
- Phrases
- chain of custody
Forms
- Plural
- custodies → detentions, confinements, detainments, holds…
Example sentences
- detention You just bought yourself another day of detention.
- confinement Bruno spends his birthday in solitary confinement.
- detainment Yanni is in the detainment room of the airport.
- imprisonment The judge sentenced him to one year's imprisonment.
- guardianship The celebrity was still incompetent and needed guardianship.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| custody | steady | |
| detention | steady | |
| confinement | falling | |
| detainment | rising | |
| imprisonment | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- keep1, care1, hold1, ward1
- 6 letters
- charge1, charre
- 7 letters
- keeping2
- 9 letters
- detention3
- 10 letters
- protection3, detainment
- 11 letters
- confinement3
- 12 letters
- conservation4, imprisonment4, guardianship4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (keeping2 = 2 syllables).