solitary confinement

1. 1.

   confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners

   “he was held in solitary”

   Synonymssolitary

   Broaderconfinement

Questions about solitary confinement

What does solitary confinement mean?

solitary confinement means "confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners".

What is another word for solitary confinement?

Close synonyms include solitary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solitary confinement a common word?

solitary confinement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.