imprisonment

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
  2. noun the state of being imprisoned
  3. noun the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.

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