Imprisonment

Synonyms for "imprisonment" (58 found)

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Strong matches (17)

Noun(1 words)
immurement

Related words (29)

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has context

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has property

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is a

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related to

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Translations

77 translations across 48 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • حَبْس noun (confinement)
  • سَجْن noun (confinement)

Armenian

1 entries
  • բանտարկություն noun (confinement)

Asturian

1 entries
  • encarcelamientu noun (confinement)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • azadlıqdan məhrumetmə noun (confinement)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • зняво́ленне noun (confinement)
  • пазбаўле́нне во́лі noun (confinement)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • затваряне noun (confinement)

Catalan

1 entries
  • empresonament noun (confinement)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 下獄 /下狱 noun (confinement)
  • 徒刑 noun (confinement)

Czech

1 entries
  • uvěznění noun (confinement)

Danish

1 entries
  • fangenskab noun (confinement)

Dutch

1 entries
  • gevangenschap noun (confinement)

Estonian

1 entries
  • vangistus noun (confinement)

Faroese

1 entries
  • fangilsi noun (confinement)

Finnish

1 entries
  • vankeus noun (confinement)

French

1 entries
  • emprisonnement noun (confinement)

Galician

1 entries
  • encarceramento noun (confinement)

German

2 entries
  • Gefangenschaft noun (confinement)
  • Haft noun (confinement)

Greek

2 entries
  • κάθειρξη noun (confinement)
  • φυλάκιση noun (confinement)

Hindi

1 entries
  • कारावास noun (confinement)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • bebörtönzés noun (confinement)
  • szabadságvesztés noun (confinement)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • hukuman penjara noun (confinement)

Irish

4 entries
  • braighdeanas noun (confinement)
  • gabhann noun (confinement)
  • príosún noun (confinement)
  • príosúnacht noun (confinement)

Italian

3 entries
  • carcerazione noun (confinement)
  • detenzione noun (confinement)
  • incarcerazione noun (confinement)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 徒刑 noun (confinement)
  • 懲役 noun (confinement)
  • 投獄 noun (confinement)
  • 拘禁刑 noun (confinement)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ការដាក់គុក noun (confinement)

Korean

2 entries
  • 도형 noun (confinement)
  • 투옥 noun (confinement)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • popajź noun (confinement)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • заробеништво noun (confinement)
  • затворање noun (confinement)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • തടവ് noun (confinement)

Māori

1 entries
  • mauheretanga noun (confinement)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • fengsling noun (confinement)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • fengsling noun (confinement)

Occitan

1 entries
  • encarceracion noun (confinement)

Oromo

1 entries
  • hidhaa noun (confinement)

Polish

3 entries
  • osądzenie noun (confinement)
  • pozbawienie wolności noun (confinement)
  • uwięzienie noun (confinement)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • aprisionamento noun (confinement)

Romanian

2 entries
  • încarcerare noun (confinement)
  • întemnițare noun (confinement)

Russian

3 entries
  • заключе́ние noun (confinement)
  • заточе́ние noun (confinement)
  • лише́ние свобо́ды noun (confinement)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • ciomachas noun (confinement)

Slovak

2 entries
  • uväznenie noun (confinement)
  • väznenie noun (confinement)

Spanish

4 entries
  • aprisionamiento noun (confinement)
  • cautiverio noun (confinement)
  • cautividad noun (confinement)
  • encarcelación noun (confinement)

Swedish

1 entries
  • fångenskap noun (confinement)

Thai

1 entries
  • จำคุก noun (confinement)

Turkish

1 entries
  • hapsetme noun (confinement)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • позба́влення во́лі noun (confinement)
  • ув'я́знення noun (confinement)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • phạt tù noun (confinement)

Volapük

2 entries
  • fanäbam noun (confinement)
  • fanäböpam noun (confinement)

Welsh

1 entries
  • carchariad noun (confinement)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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Such an offence is punished by a fine and/or imprisonment.

Source: tatoeba (60414)

Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Source: tatoeba (244935)

The judge sentenced him to one year's imprisonment.

Source: tatoeba (282740)

During the imprisonment of Sir Thomas a frequent intercourse of letters passed between him and this beloved daughter and when deprived of pen and ink he contrived to write to her with a coal.

Source: tatoeba (909067)

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