Found 2 items, similar to Internment.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: internment
internment
n 1: confinement during wartime
2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
prison) [syn:
imprisonment]
3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
law [syn:
impoundment,
impounding,
poundage]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Internment
Internment
\In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See
Intern.]
1. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops,
to the interior of a country.
[1913 Webster]
2. Confining within a country for the duration of a war; --
usually of citizens of a hostile power.
[PJC]