enclosure

Noun

Meaning

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

envelopment paddock case corral cover wall housing compound shell garden pen fence cage courtyard stall
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Antonyms

open loss excommunication escape angle exception
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Hypernyms

area space introduction document insertion papers

Hyponyms

chamber plenum hold matrix jacket coop

Phrases with the word

chest enclosure speaker enclosure enclosure for swine watertight enclosure lady of the temple enclosure sow enclosure

Examples

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. Arnold Bennett

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. Zaha Hadid

Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures. Meg Cabot

The cold pork in the fridge was wilting at the edges; it and I exchanged looks of mutual contempt, like two women wearing the same hat in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Kyril Bonfiglioli

The enclosure of the commons inaugurates a new ecological order: Enclosure did not just physically transfer the control over grasslands from the peasants to the lord. Enclosure marked a radical change in the attitudes of society towards the environment. Ivan Illich

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Close letter words and terms

enclosing enclosing one or more enclosing rhyme enclosure for swine enclothe enclothed cognition