All enclosure synonyms

noun enclosure

• inclusion — the act of including.
• attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
• insertion — the act of inserting: the insertion of a coin in a vending machine.
• addition — An addition to something is a thing which is added to it.
• insert — to put or place in: to insert a key in a lock.
• appendix — Your appendix is a small closed tube inside your body which is attached to your digestive system.
• field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
• arena — An arena is a place where sports, entertainments, and other public events take place. It has seats around it where people sit and watch.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• pen — a female swan.
• corral — In North America, a corral is a space surrounded by a fence where cattle or horses are kept.
• paddock — Archaic. a frog or toad.
• compound — A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
• cage — A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
• courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
• ghetto — a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
• asylum — If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
• aviary — An aviary is a large cage or covered area in which birds are kept.
• bowl — A bowl is a round container with a wide uncovered top. Some kinds of bowl are used, for example, for serving or eating food from, or in cooking, while other larger kinds are used for washing or cleaning.
• building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
• camp — A camp is a collection of huts and other buildings that is provided for a particular group of people, such as refugees, prisoners, or soldiers, as a place to live or stay.
• cell — A cell is the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• coliseum — a large building, such as a stadium or theatre, used for entertainments, sports, etc
• coop — A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits.
• court — A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate.
• den — A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
• dungeon — Zork
• garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
• hutch — a pen or enclosed coop for small animals: rabbit hutch.
• gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
• park — Mungo [muhng-goh] /ˈmʌŋ goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1806? Scottish explorer in Africa.
• patch — Alexander McCarrell [muh-kar-uh l] /məˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1945, U.S. World War II general.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
• pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
• precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
• prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
• quad — quadriplegic: a special ward for quads.
• quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
• region — an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth.
• room — channel
• stadium — a sports arena, usually oval or horseshoe-shaped, with tiers of seats for spectators.
• sty — a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
• vault — the act of vaulting.
• walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
• yard — the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
• zone — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.