English-Thai Dictionary

imprisonment

N การ จำคุก  การ กักขัง  การ คุมขัง  confinement immurement kan-jam-kuk

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPRISONMENT

n.The act of putting and confining in prison; the act of arresting and detaining in custody. 1. Confinement in a place; restraint of liberty to go from place to place at pleasure. Appropriately, the confinement of a criminal or debtor within the walls of a prison, or in the custody of a sheriff, etc.
False imprisonment is any confinement of the person, or restraint of liberty, without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant executed at an unlawful time, is false imprisonment.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMPRISONMENT

Im *pris "on ment, n. Etym: [OE. enprisonment; F. emprisonnement. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

imprisonment

im pris on ment |imˈprizənmənt ɪmˈprɪznmənt | ▶noun the state of being imprisoned; captivity: he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

 

Oxford Dictionary

imprisonment

im |pris ¦on |ment |ɪmˈprɪz (ə )nm (ə )nt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state of being imprisoned; captivity: he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

imprisonment

imprisonment noun he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment: incarceration, internment, confinement, detention, custody, captivity; penal servitude, hard labour; informal time; Brit. informal porridge, bird, chokey; archaic durance, duress. ANTONYMS freedom.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

imprisonment

im pr í s on ment 名詞 U C 投獄 ; 拘置, 禁固 (刑 ), 監禁, 禁足 ▸ life imprisonment 終身刑