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noun
1.
a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
2.
a 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.
3.
a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
4.
the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures.
5.
EXPANDa place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained.
6.
the detention or isolation enforced.
7.
the place, especially a hospital, where people are detained.
8.
a period of 40 days.
9.
COLLAPSEsocial, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state.
verb (used with object)
10.
to put in or subject to quarantine.
11.
to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
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Origin:
1600–10; < Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, orig. Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty ≪ Latin quadrāgintā
1600–10; < Italian quarantina, variant of quarantena, orig. Upper Italian (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty, derivative of quaranta forty ≪ Latin quadrāgintā
Related forms
quar·an·tin·a·ble, adjective
quar·an·tin·er, noun
pre·quar·an·tine, noun, verb (used with object), -tined, -tin·ing.
un·quar·an·tined, adjective
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Word Origin & History
quarantine
1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from L. quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see four). Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease
EXPANDis kept in isolation" is 1660s, from It. quarantina giorni, lit. "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from L. quadraginta. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced at Ragusa late 14c.). The extended sense of "any period of isolation" is from 1680.
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Medical Dictionary
quarantine quar·an·tine (kwôr'ən-tēn')
n.
A period of time during which a vehicle, person, or material suspected of carrying a contagious disease is detained at a port of entry under enforced isolation to prevent disease from entering a country.
A place for such detention.
Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
A condition of enforced isolation.
A period of 40 days.
To isolate in or as if in quarantine.
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Cultural Dictionary
quarantine [(kwawr-uhn-teen, kwahr-uhn-teen)]The isolation of people who either have a contagious disease or have been exposed to one, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the disease.
Note: The term is sometimes used politically to designate the political and economic isolation of a nation in retribution for unacceptable policies: “When Iraq invaded Kuwait, it was placed in quarantine by the nations of the world.”
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