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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

독방 감금

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dokbang gamgeum

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Solitary Confinement/ˈsɒl.ɪ.tər.i kənˈfaɪn.mənt/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 죄수는 독방 감금 처분을 받았다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact, except for members of prison staff, typically housed in a separate cell for twenty-three to twenty-four hours a day.

    "The prisoner spent thirty days in solitary confinement as punishment for the altercation."
  2. 2

    The state of being kept entirely alone, separated from social interaction.

    "Extended periods of solitary confinement can have severe psychological effects on an individual."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English and Latin roots, combining 'solitarius' (from 'solus', meaning alone) with 'confinement' (from Old French 'confinement' and Latin 'confinis', sharing a border). Historically evolved from monastic isolation practices into a modern institutional penal term denoting complete separation of a prisoner from human contact.

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