captivity meaning

• Noun: captivity  kap'tivitee
  1. The state of being imprisoned
     "he was held in captivity until he died"
     - imprisonment, incarceration, immurement 
  2. The state of being a slave
     "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"
     - enslavement

  Derived forms: captivities

  See also: captive

  Type of: confinement, subjection, subjugation

  Encyclopedia: Captivity

• He chafed against his captivity.
• Many more died on their way to captivity.
• He was released from his long captivity.
• Once more he felt sense of captivity upon him.
• Von arnim was brought through algiers on his way to captivity.
• Prisoners sometimes ease their captivity by endowing their jailers with extraordinary qualities.
• A few hundred yards away other americans, our prisoners of war, still languished in a cruel captivity.
• Many animals do not breed when in captivity
• We have the best fighting beast we've ever own in captivity
• Does it mean a captive, or a place of captivity

• "captivity" meaning in Chinese: n. 囚禁；俘虏；束缚 (opp. freedom)。
• "captivity" meaning in Japanese: captivity n. とらわれの身, 監禁. 【動詞＋】 ◆endure a long captivity 長い...
• "captivity" meaning in Russian: 1) плен2) порабощенность, рабство3) неволя; жизнь в неволе...
• "captivity" meaning in French: n. captivité, emprisonnement