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quarantine
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/ˈkwɔɹ.ən.tin/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A period of keeping people or animals apart to prevent disease.
- 02
verb
To keep someone or something apart to prevent disease spreading.
Examples
The contagious persons were placed in quarantine.
There is a 21-day quarantine for people suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈkɔɹ.ən.tin/
- /ˈkwɒrn̩tiːn/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA period of 40 days, particularly
The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
More examples
In contextTwo weeks quarantine?! Oh my gosh! Together with Mary at home?!
The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
Quarantain of the King, is a Truce of forty Days appointed by S. Louis; during which it was expressly forbid to take any Revenge of the Relation or Friends of People.
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Origin
noun
From Medieval Latin quarentena and quarentīna (“40-day period, Lent”) via Middle English quarentine, Norman quarenteine, French quarenteine, and Italian quarantina, via proposed Late Latin *quaranta + -ēna (forming distributive adjectives), from Latin quadrāgintā (“four tens, 40”). In reference to French politics, calque of French quarantaine after edicts of Louis IX. In reference to a severance of political relations, popularized by the Roosevelt administration's 1937 approach to the Axis powers and the later Kennedy administration's 1962 approach to Cuba during the missile crisis.