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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024quar•an•tine /ˈkwɔrənˌtin, ˈkwɑr-, ˌkwɔrənˈtin, ˌkwɑr-/USA pronunciation n., v., -tined, -tin•ing. n. - Pathologya period, originally 40 days, during which a person or animal is kept apart from others to ensure that any disease he, she, or it may have will not be spread: [uncountable]kept in quarantine until the disease ran its course.[countable* usually singular]imposing a quarantine.
v. [~ + object] - Pathologyto put in or place under quarantine:The captain quarantined the sick passenger.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024quar•an•tine (kwôr′ən tēn′, kwor′-, kwôr′ən tēn′, kwor′-),USA pronunciation n., v., -tined, -tin•ing. n. - Pathologya strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- Pathologya period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
- a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
- the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures.
- a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained.
- the detention or isolation enforced.
- Pathologythe place, esp. a hospital, where people are detained.
- a period of 40 days.
- social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state.
v.t. - Pathologyto put in or subject to quarantine.
- to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
- Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, origin, originally Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty Latin quadrāgintā
- 1600–10
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