impoundment, impounding, internment, poundage
(noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
imprisonment, internment
(noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
internment
(noun) confinement during wartime
Source: WordNet® 3.1
internment (countable and uncountable, plural internments)
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Source: Wiktionary
In*tern"ment, n. Etym: [F. internement. See Intern.]
Definition: Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
