self-quarantine
/ˌsɛlfˈkwɒɹəntiːn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.
Intransitive verb
noun
Isolation by avoiding physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He said that he became sick with relatively mild symptoms about a week ago and self-quarantined at his home."
- "We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties."
- "Eleven city firefighters have tested positive, and more than 50 are in self-quarantine."
Etymology
From self- + quarantine.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
self-quarantiner