- parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
--1 is a kind of parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
--1 is a part of pregnancy, gestation, maternity
--1 has parts: uterine contraction; effacement; asynclitism, obliquity
--1 has particulars: premature labor, premature labour - confinement - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
--2 is a kind of restraint
--2 has particulars:imprisonment, internment; house arrest; commitment, committal, consignment Derived form: verb confine5 - confinement - the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
--3 is a kind of subjugation, subjection
--3 has particulars:constraint, restraint; captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement; detention, hold, custody; solitary confinement, solitary Derived form: verb confine4