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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
quar′an•tin′a•ble, adj. quar′an•tin′er, n. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: quarantine /ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn/ n - 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
- the place or area where such detention is enforced
- any period or state of enforced isolation
vb (transitive)- to isolate in or as if in quarantine
Etymology: 17th Century: from Italian quarantina period of forty days, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadrāgintā |