IMPRISONMENTS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Noun

the state of being imprisoned

Example: he was held in captivity until he died; the imprisonment of captured soldiers; his ignominious incarceration in the local jail; he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon