internment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun confinement during wartime
  2. noun the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
    imprisonment.
  3. noun placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
    impounding; poundage; impoundment.

WordNet

In*tern"ment noun
Etymology
F. internement. See Intern.
Definitions
  1. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Webster 1913