'Quarantine' definitions:
Definition of 'quarantine'
(from WordNet)
noun
Enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
noun
Isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
verb
Place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
Definition of 'Quarantine'
From: GCIDE
- Quarantine \Quar`an*tine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quarantined; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarantining.] To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quarantine'
From: GCIDE
- Quarantine \Quar"an*tine\, n. [F. quarantaine, OF. quaranteine, fr. F. quarante forty, L. quadraginta, akin to quattuor four, and E. four: cf. It. quarantina, quarentine. See Four, and cf. Quadragesima.]
- 1. A space of forty days; -- used of Lent. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Quarantine is now applied also to any forced stoppage of travel or communication on account of malignant contagious disease, on land as well as by sea. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eng. Law) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. [1913 Webster]
- Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quarantine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alien,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- beleaguer,
- beleaguerment,
- beset,
- besetment,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- bolt,
- bound,
- box in,
- cage,
- chamber,
- circumscription,
- close in,
- color bar,
- compass,
- confinement,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cordon sanitaire,
- cordoning,
- cordoning off,
- corral,
- cull out,
- detachment,
- divide,
- division,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- enclosure,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- envelopment,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- fence in,
- foreigner,
- ghettoize,
- gin,
- hedge in,
- hem in,
- house in,
- immurement,
- impound,
- imprison,
- imprisonment,
- incarcerate,
- incarceration,
- include,
- inclusion,
- insularity,
- insulate,
- insulation,
- isolate,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- jail,
- Jim Crow,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- kennel,
- know-nothingism,
- lay aside,
- leaguer,
- mew,
- mew up,
- narrowness,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- parochialism,
- pen,
- pen in,
- persona non grata,
- pick out,
- pocket,
- privacy,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- put aside,
- quarantine flag,
- race hatred,
- racial segregation,
- rail in,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- riddle,
- rope off,
- rustication,
- sanitary cordon,
- screen,
- seal off,
- seclude,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segregate,
- segregation,
- separate,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- siege,
- sieve,
- sift,
- snobbishness,
- sort out,
- splendid isolation,
- stable,
- stranger,
- surround,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- tightness,
- wall in,
- winnow,
- withdrawal,
- wrap,
- xenophobia,
- yard,
- yard up,
- yellow flag,
- yellow jack