custody
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌstədiː/ (Estuary English)
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: custardy (in some dialects)
Noun
custody (usually uncountable, plural custodies)
- The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
- The court awarded custody to the child's father.
- The mother gained custody of the children.
- Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
- I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
- The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
- He was mistreated while in police custody.
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
- The Custody of the Holy Land includes the monasteries of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.
Derived terms
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Translations
legal right to take care of something or somebody
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temporary possession
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state of being imprisoned or detained
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Franciscan administrative unit
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Further reading
- “custody”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “custody”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “custody”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Custódia Priberam Dictionary
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