n. | 1. | Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. |
2. | Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. |
Noun | 1. | confinement - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" |
2. | confinement - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | |
3. | confinement - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" |