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say it: im-PRIZ-uhn-muhnt
imprisonment is a noun meaning "putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment". It is pronounced /ˌɪmˈpɹɪzənmənt/ — im-PRIZ-uhn-muhnt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state of being imprisoned
“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”
the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for imprisonment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.