Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense quarantines, present participle quarantining, past tense, past participle quarantined
1. uncountable noun [oft in/into n]
If a person or animal is inquarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they haveor may have a disease.
She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine.
No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.
Synonyms: isolation, segregation, solitude More Synonyms of quarantine
2. verb [usually passive]
If people or animals are quarantined, they are stopped from having contact with other people or animals. If a place is quarantined, people and animals are prevented from entering or leaving it.
Dogs have to be quarantined for six months before they'll let them in. [beVERB-ed]
Synonyms: isolate, separate, segregate, keep apart More Synonyms of quarantine
quarantine in British English
(ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn)
noun
1.
a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease
2.
the place or area where such detention is enforced
3.
any period or state of enforced isolation
verb(transitive)
4.
to isolate in or as if in quarantine
5. Australian
to withhold (a portion of a welfare payment) from a person or group of people
Word origin
C17: from Italian quarantina period of forty days, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadrāgintā
quarantine in American English
(ˈkwɔrəntin; ˈkwɑrənˌtin)
noun
1.
a.
the period, orig. 40 days, during which an arriving vessel suspected of carrying contagious disease is detained in port in strict isolation
b.
the place where such a vessel is stationed
2.
any isolation or restriction on travel or passage imposed to keep contagious diseases, insect pests, etc. from spreading
3.
the state of being quarantined
4.
a place where persons, animals, or plants having contagious diseases, insect pests,etc. are kept in isolation, or beyond which they may not travel
5.
any period of seclusion, social ostracism, etc.
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈquaranˌtined or ˈquaranˌtining
6.
to place under quarantine
7.
to isolate politically, commercially, socially, etc.
Derived forms
quarantinable (ˈquaranˌtinable)
adjective
Word origin
It quarantina, lit., space of forty days < quaranta, forty < L quadraginta < base of quattuor, four
Examples of 'quarantine' in a sentence
quarantine
Serious breaches of quarantine law risk up to ten years in jail.
The Sun (2016)
Explain the difference between the public health practices of isolation and quarantine.
McKenzie, James F. & Pinger, Robert R. An Introduction to Community Health (1995)
There are police guarding the quarantine centre at the township hospital but not on the streets.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The cat will now stay at a quarantine centre for six months.
The Sun (2006)
We have to choose between a period of quarantine or importing Ebola.
The Sun (2015)
The pandas have begun a 30-day quarantine period.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It fitted in with her status as trailblazer as she suggested financial penalties for missed tests and quarantine periods for those returning from bans.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They must serve a quarantine period of three weeks away from any Ebola patients before they go to the airport.
The Sun (2015)
She cannot arrive in the UK until she is six months old due to strict quarantine laws.
The Sun (2014)
He's now behind bars at the Heathrow quarantine centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Martial law is declared in a fictional town in California, with soldiers putting the whole area under quarantine.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The turtle, which has now been adopted by the aquarium, will stay in the quarantine area until it has fully recovered.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
quarantine
British English: quarantine /ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn/ NOUN
If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are kept separate from other people or animals in case they have an infectious disease.
The government imposed a 10-day quarantine on all citizens returning from areas affected by the disease.
American English: quarantine
Arabic: حَجْر صِحِّي
Brazilian Portuguese: quarentena
Chinese: 检疫
Croatian: karantena
Czech: karanténa
Danish: karantæne
Dutch: quarantaine
European Spanish: cuarentena
Finnish: karanteeni
French: quarantaine
German: Quarantäne
Greek: καραντίνα
Italian: quarantena
Japanese: 検疫期間
Korean: 격리
Norwegian: karantene
Polish: kwarantanna
European Portuguese: quarentena
Romanian: carantină
Russian: карантин
Latin American Spanish: cuarentena
Swedish: karantän
Thai: สถานกักกันเพื่อป้องกันการแพร่ของเชื้อโรค
Turkish: karantina
Ukrainian: карантин
Vietnamese: sự kiểm dịch
British English: quarantine VERB
If people or animals are quarantined, they are stopped from having contact with other people or animals.
Dogs have to be quarantined for six months before they'll let them in.
American English: quarantine
Brazilian Portuguese: manter sob quarentena
Chinese: 对…进行隔离
European Spanish: poner en cuarentena
French: mettre en quarantaine
German: unter Quarantäne stellen
Italian: mettere in quarantina
Japanese: 隔離する
Korean: 격리되다
European Portuguese: manter sob quarentena
Latin American Spanish: poner en cuarentena
Chinese translation of 'quarantine'
quarantine
(ˈkwɔrəntiːn)
n(u)
检(檢)疫 (jiǎnyì)
in quarantine被隔离(離) (bèi gélí)
(noun)
Definition
a period of isolation, esp. of people or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease
She was sent home and put in quarantine.
Synonyms
isolation
the isolation he endured while he was in captivity
segregation
a law which will end compulsory racial segregation in prisons
solitude
Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude.
(verb)
Definition
to isolate in or as if in quarantine
It is sensible to quarantine all new plants for a week or two.
Synonyms
isolate
Patients will be isolated for one month after treatment.
separate
What separates terrorism from other acts of violence?
segregate
They segregate you from the rest of the party.
keep apart
Additional synonyms
in the sense of segregate
Definition
to set apart from others or from the main group
They segregate you from the rest of the party.
Synonyms
set apart,
divide,
separate,
isolate,
single out,
discriminate against,
dissociate
in the sense of segregation
Definition
the act of segregating
a law which will end compulsory racial segregation in prisons
Synonyms
separation,
discrimination,
apartheid,
isolation,
partitioning,
setting apart,
keeping apart
in the sense of separate
Definition
to distinguish
What separates terrorism from other acts of violence?