enclosure

Meaning

1. (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
3. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
4. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
5. (broadly, uncountable) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
6. (uncountable) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
7. (countable, uncountable) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Synonyms

fence

pen

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inclosure

wall

yard

corral

hedge

fencing

enclosing

appendix

paddock

attachment

garden

room

confinement

fold

paling

envelopment

court

barrier

coop

compound

natural enclosure

housing

stockade

affix

stronghold

cage

addendum

run

kraal

prison

home

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embankment

annex

dike

inclusion

rider

cover

courtyard

bars

banister

fortress

column

balustrade

application

clan

family

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fairground

citadel

Translations

enclos

recinto

Anlage

allegato

clôture

recinto

encierro

recinzione

Umzäunung

palissade

cercado

Einfriedung

Beilage

Gehege

supplemento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: enclosure

In summary

From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdere, inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion.