He was held in captivity.
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Captivity
//kæpˈtɪvɪti//
Synonyms for "captivity" (49 found)
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Related words (24)
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2 entriesderived
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1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 44 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- αἰχμαλωσία noun (state of being captive)
Arabic
2 entries- أَسْر noun (state of being captive)
- سَبْي noun (state of being captive)
Armenian
1 entries- գերություն noun (state of being captive)
Belarusian
2 entries- няво́ля noun (state of being captive)
- пало́н noun (state of being captive)
Bulgarian
1 entries- плен noun (state of being captive)
Catalan
2 entries- captiveri noun (state of being captive)
- captivitat noun (state of being captive)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دیلی noun (state of being captive)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 囚禁 noun (state of being captive)
- 囹圄 noun (state of being captive)
- 拘押 noun (state of being captive)
- 拘禁 noun (state of being captive)
Czech
2 entries- zajetí noun (state of being captive)
- zajetí noun (period of being captive)
Dutch
1 entries- gevangenschap noun (state of being captive)
Finnish
3 entries- vankeus noun (state of being captive)
- vankeus noun (period of being captive)
- vankeusaika noun (period of being captive)
French
1 entries- captivité noun (state of being captive)
Galician
2 entries- cativerio noun (state of being captive)
- catividade noun (state of being captive)
Georgian
2 entries- მონობა noun (state of being captive)
- ტყვეობა noun (state of being captive)
German
2 entries- Gefangenschaft noun (state of being captive)
- Gefangenschaft noun (period of being captive)
Greek
1 entries- αιχμαλωσία noun (state of being captive)
Hebrew
2 entries- שִׁבְיָה noun (state of being captive)
- שֶׁבִי noun (state of being captive)
Hungarian
1 entries- fogság noun (state of being captive)
Irish
1 entries- broid noun (state of being captive)
Italian
1 entries- cattività noun (state of being captive)
Japanese
1 entries- 監禁 noun (state of being captive)
Korean
1 entries- 감금 noun (state of being captive)
Latgalian
2 entries- navaļa noun (state of being captive)
- vaņgeiba noun (state of being captive)
Latin
1 entries- captīvitās noun (state of being captive)
Latvian
1 entries- gūsts noun (state of being captive)
Macedonian
2 entries- заробеништво noun (state of being captive)
- пленство noun (state of being captive)
Māori
1 entries- whakarau noun (state of being captive)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اسیرلك noun (state of being captive)
Persian
1 entries- اسارت noun (state of being captive)
Polish
1 entries- niewola noun (state of being captive)
Portuguese
2 entries- cativeiro noun (period of being captive)
- catividade noun (state of being captive)
Romanian
1 entries- captivitate noun (state of being captive)
Russian
4 entries- нево́ля noun (state of being captive)
- нево́ля noun (period of being captive)
- плен noun (state of being captive)
- плен noun (period of being captive)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zarobljeníštvo noun (state of being captive)
- zarobljeníštvo noun (period of being captive)
- заробљени́штво noun (state of being captive)
- заробљени́штво noun (period of being captive)
Shor
1 entries- олча noun (state of being captive)
Slovak
1 entries- zajatie noun (state of being captive)
Slovene
1 entries- ujetništvo noun (state of being captive)
Southern Altai
1 entries- олјо noun (state of being captive)
Spanish
4 entries- captiverio noun (state of being captive)
- captividad noun (state of being captive)
- cautiverio noun (state of being captive)
- cautividad noun (state of being captive)
Swedish
2 entries- fångenskap noun (state of being captive)
- fångenskap noun (period of being captive)
Turkish
1 entries- esaret noun (state of being captive)
Ukrainian
2 entries- нево́ля noun (state of being captive)
- поло́н noun (state of being captive)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tù binh noun (state of being captive)
Welsh
1 entries- caethiwed noun (state of being captive)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I think that dolphins should not be kept in captivity.
Source: tatoeba (2722056)
Tom fled from captivity several times.
Source: tatoeba (2835469)
After seven years of wartime captivity, Tom was a broken man.
Source: tatoeba (3557501)
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