Antonyms for quarantine


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kwawr-uh n-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uh n-teen, kwor-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɔr ənˌtin, ˈkwɒr-, ˌkwɔr ənˈtin, ˌkwɒr-


Definition of quarantine

Origin :
  • 1520s, "period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's house." Earlier quarentyne (15c.), "desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days," from Latin quadraginta "forty," related to quattuor "four" (see four).
  • Sense of "period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation" is 1660s, from Italian quarantina giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta. So called from the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced 1377) to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s.
  • noun isolation
  • verb isolate
Example sentences :
  • The ship only got to the quarantine ground that day, but in the morning we went to sea.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • I left the Plato at the quarantine ground, going to the Sailor's Retreat.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Could you persuade them to let us remain in 'Quarantine,' then, for a few days?
  • Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • But that is impossible, unless you have broken through the quarantine.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • For me, I'm sick of havin' folks act like we was a quarantine station.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • The first quarantine station of which we hear was established in Venice in 1403.
  • Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis
  • We parted from the quarantine soldiers, and took a guide for Hebron.
  • Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
  • Quarantine was then in force, and, with my fellow-passengers, I was forbidden to land.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
  • A telegram to Quarantine would get him, up to an hour or so after we cast off.
  • Extract from : « Little Miss Grouch » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Why should patients with the "diseases of childhood" be placed in quarantine.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson

Synonyms for quarantine

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