detentions
Meaning of detentions
plural noun
- the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody.
the fifteen people arrested were still in police detention
late Middle English (in the sense ‘withholding of what is claimed or due’): from late Latin detentio(n- ), from Latin detinere ‘hold back’ (see detain).
Information about detentions
- It is a name.
- The singular form of detentions is: detention.
- Languages in which detentions is used:
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Hyphenation of detentions
de-ten-tions
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- detentions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
detentions synonyms
Meaning imprisonment:
Meaning the state of being imprisoned; captivity:
Meaning the action of confining or state of being confined:
Meaning the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment:
Meaning the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons:
Meaning the condition of being imprisoned or confined:
Meaning deprivation or restriction of personal liberty or freedom of movement:
Meaning the action of seizing someone and taking them into custody:
Meaning a committal to custody:
Meaning the action of sending a person to prison or a psychiatric hospital:
Meaning a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed:
Meaning threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing something against their will or better judgement:
Meaning imprisonment or confinement:
Words that rhyme with detentions
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