Noun: imprisonment im'pri-zun-munt
- (law) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
"The judge ordered imprisonment for a term of five years"
- The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
"His imprisonment lasted for ten years";
- internment
- The state of being imprisoned
"the imprisonment of captured soldiers";
- captivity, incarceration, immurement
Derived forms: imprisonments
Type of: confinement, penalisation [Brit], penalization, penalty, punishment, sanction
Encyclopedia: Imprisonment