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a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must stay or be kept away from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease: The doctor said I could go home as long as I agreed to stay in quarantine for at least seven days.
The meaning of QUARANTINE is a period of 40 days. How to use quarantine in a sentence.
noun. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. 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.
a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must stay or be kept away from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease: The doctor said I could go home as long as I agreed to stay in quarantine for at least seven days.
quarantine in British English. (ˈkwɒrənˌtiːn ) noun. 1. a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease. 2. the place or area where such detention is enforced. 3.
If you contract something highly infectious, such as pinkeye, please quarantine yourself so that you don’t infect others with it. This means you’ll have to stay in isolation and avoid contact with other people. Starting in the 16th century, a quarantine lasted specifically 40 days.
n. 1. (Medicine) a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease. 2. (Medicine) the place or area where such detention is enforced. 3. any period or state of enforced isolation. vb ( tr)
