imprisonment, internment
(noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
imprisonment
(noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
(noun) the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
• incarceration
• jaildom
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pris"on ment, n. Etym: [OE. enprisonment; F. emprisonnement.]
Definition: The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.
Syn.
– Incarceration; custody; confinement; durance; restraint.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
