Definition for Custody:

• kus'to-di, n. a watching or guarding: care: security: imprisonment.-- adj. CUST[= O]' DIAL.-- ns. CUST[= O]' DIAN, CUS'TODE, CUST[= O]' DIER, CUS'TOS, one who has care, esp. of some public building. [ L. custodia, from custos, custodis, a keeper.]

Synonyms for Custody:

• n.

  •
  • nurture,
  • raise,
  • bring up,
  • hothouse,
  • potty-train,
  • custodial,
  • rear,
  • rein.
  •
  • inside,
  • keeping.
  •
  • arrest,
  • sanctuary.
  •
  • trust,
  • care,
  • supervision,
  • care for.
  •
  • free.
  •act (noun)
  • custody.
  •captivity (noun)
  • subjections,
  • vassalages.
  •charge (noun)
  • in tendances,
  • superintendencies,
  • super intendencies,
  • super-visions,
  • intendances,
  • super intendency,
  • super-intendency,
  • super-intendencies,
  • in-tendances,
  • in-tendance,
  • super-vision,
  • super vision,
  • in tendance,
  • super visions.
  •confinement (noun)
  • boundings,
  • de limitation,
  • constrainments,
  • de-limitation,
  • immurations,
  • de-limitations,
  • de limitations.
  •confinement, jailing (noun)
  • jail,
  • duress,
  • incarceration.
  •conservation (noun)
  • up-keeps,
  • super vising,
  • protectings,
  • pre servals,
  • super-vising,
  • pre-servals,
  • pre-servings,
  • pre-serving,
  • conservings,
  • governings,
  • preservings,
  • up keep,
  • pre-serval,
  • up-keep,
  • directings,
  • supervisings,
  • cherishings,
  • pre servings,
  • sustentations,
  • up keeps,
  • safeguardings,
  • preservals,
  • pre serval,
  • managings,
  • pre serving,
  • guardings.
  •custody (noun)
  • hands,
  • hold,
  • conservation,
  • grasp,
  • retention,
  • engagement,
  • maintenance,
  • reservation.
  •guardianship (noun)
  • tutorship,
  • wardenship.
  •imprisonment (noun)
  • thraldoms.
  •limit (noun)
  • restriction.
  •oversight (noun)
  • over-sights,
  • over sight,
  • over-sight,
  • over sights.
  •possession (noun)
  • proprietary rights,
  • proprietary,
  • possessorship,
  • Proprietaries.
  •protection (noun)
  • safeguard,
  • administration (of an estate).
  •restriction (noun)
  • grain salt,
  • ball chain,
  • re strictions,
  • re-striction,
  • no no's,
  • nono's,
  • re-strictions,
  • small difficulties,
  • no nos,
  • re striction,
  • nono,
  • excess baggages.
  •security (noun)
  • pre-caution,
  • pre caution,
  • re treats,
  • re-treat,
  • pre-cautions,
  • pro-mise,
  • re-treats,
  • safenesses,
  • pro mise,
  • pro-mises,
  • pro mises,
  • pre cautions.
  •superintendence (noun)
  • ministration,
  • ministrations.
  •tutelage (noun)
  • coachings,
  • co aching,
  • co-aching.

• v.

  •capture (verb)
  • apprehend,
  • seize.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • safe-conduct,
  • preventive detention,
  • toilet-train,
  • the empty nest,
  • protective custody,
  • defense,
  • safe passage,
  • self-preservation,
  • guardianship.
  •
  • captive,
  • condemned,
  • tuck into,
  • revolving door syndrome,
  • tuck in.
  •
  • lockdown,
  • salvage,
  • salvation.
  •
  • spoil.
  •
  • ward.
  •
  • serve.
  •
  • stretch.
  •
  • term.
  •
  • go down.
  •Other relevant words:
  • definitely,
  • stowage,
  • firmly,
  • tenure,
  • foremanship,
  • handgrip,
  • ownership,
  • disposal,
  • fixedly,
  • enslave,
  • manifestly,
  • exactly,
  • evidently,
  • watch,
  • time lag,
  • accused,
  • invigilation,
  • look out,
  • captainship,
  • preservation,
  • tenacity,
  • entirely,
  • in custody,
  • apparently,
  • manpower,
  • cold storage,
  • tread under foot,
  • generalship,
  • tame,
  • government,
  • confidently,
  • assuredly,
  • enslavement,
  • confine,
  • servitude,
  • lightly,
  • sharp eye,
  • command,
  • dominion,
  • sponsorship,
  • Inthrall,
  • lead captive,
  • Bethrall,
  • governance,
  • responsibility,
  • plainly,
  • hand,
  • imprisoned,
  • clasp,
  • observation,
  • suspected,
  • watching,
  • easily,
  • constrained,
  • immure,
  • repress,
  • Overseership,
  • prudence,
  • govern,
  • bind,
  • mastery,
  • take charge of,
  • restrained,
  • openly,
  • prisoner,
  • subject,
  • for sure,
  • patronage,
  • storage area,
  • for certain,
  • title,
  • qui vive,
  • preventive custody,
  • eventually,
  • surely,
  • suzerainty,
  • custodianship,
  • storage,
  • send to prison,
  • curb,
  • grip,
  • enclose,
  • under restraint,
  • tute-lage,
  • jurisdiction,
  • hold in bondage,
  • take prisoner,
  • proprietorship,
  • confide,
  • incarcerate,
  • pastorship,
  • slavery,
  • fasten,
  • imprison,
  • under hatches,
  • specifically,
  • direction,
  • irons,
  • restrain,
  • lookout,
  • decidedly,
  • bondage,
  • handle,
  • weather eye,
  • enthrall,
  • impede,
  • commend,
  • administration,
  • solidly,
  • flatly,
  • especially,
  • smoothly,
  • pledge,
  • faultlessly,
  • cargo deck,
  • explicitly,
  • in charge,
  • monitoring,
  • unambiguously,
  • burden,
  • protectorship,
  • rule,
  • under suspicion,
  • restraint,
  • proctorship,
  • take care of,
  • power,
  • vigil,
  • mastership,
  • Intendancy,
  • aegis,
  • control,
  • headship,
  • take into custody,
  • surveillance,
  • warehousing,
  • sovereignty,
  • peeled eye,
  • distinctly,
  • truly,
  • trusteeship,
  • chains,
  • in swaddling clothes,
  • vigilance,
  • authority,
  • workforce,
  • cure,
  • postponement,
  • enduringly,
  • stronghold,
  • watchfulness,
  • clearly,
  • watch and ward,
  • suppress,
  • dictatorship,
  • expressly,
  • Pastorage,
  • restrict,
  • seizure,
  • watchful eye,
  • compulsory,
  • circumscribe,
  • put away,
  • subjugate,
  • work force,
  • unequivocally,
  • under a cloud,
  • prevent,
  • guardedness,
  • legitimately,
  • directorate,
  • commit,
  • weigh down,
  • influence,
  • presidency,
  • factually,
  • contain,
  • guard,
  • proctoring,
  • take captive,
  • master,
  • observance,
  • Restringency,
  • auspices,
  • management,
  • in chains,
  • wedged in,
  • cargo hold,
  • pastorate,
  • captivate,
  • Coactive,
  • wing,
  • make prisoner,
  • ministry,
  • appreciation,
  • inhibit,
  • directorship,
  • detain,
  • absolutely,
  • positively,
  • possession,
  • keep under,
  • clutch,
  • cargo area,
  • delay,
  • in limbo,
  • chairmanship,
  • bail,
  • clench,
  • guidance,
  • indeed,
  • men,
  • attach,
  • Hardily,
  • constrain,
  • jammed in,
  • wariness,
  • domination,
  • keep,
  • certainly,
  • tread down,
  • emphatically,
  • unquestionably,
  • correctly,
  • indubitably,
  • storage space,
  • gripe,
  • in prison,
  • governorship,
  • bound,
  • finally,
  • managership,
  • decisively,
  • retaining,
  • reduce to slavery,
  • leadership.

Paraphrases for Custody:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    detentions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Detainment.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    guardianship.
  • Proper noun, singular
    convicts, possess, gets, guardianship.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Institutes, internment, Institutionalization, reservation, guardianship, gaol, escrow, seizure, tutorship, Reclusion, nursery.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    custodial, custodian, remand.
  • Proper noun, singular
    custodial, custodian, imprisonment, confinement, Guards, remand.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    safekeeping, captivity, custodian, tutelage, imprisonment, confinement, sequestration, remand.

Antonyms for Custody:

• n.

  • confinement, jailing
    release.
  • supervision, charge of something
    freedom, neglect, liberation, destruction, waste, liberty.

Custody Sentence Examples:

• I commit ye; here, Soldiers, I charge ye in the Name of - of - marry, I know not who, in my Name, and the good People of England, take 'em to safe Custody.

• They were kept in custody and supplied with food until the judges, five in number, arrived from Sparta.

Homophones for Custody:

• caucasoid, cot death, cat, caudated, chickadee, cattie, chickweed, chateau, cocked hat, checked, cite, coyote, coquet, cashed, cast out, coast, cascade, cogitate, chide, chaste, chaeta, code, cestoda, cyst, cuddy, cocoswood, cased, couchette, CD4, chigetai, Cid, citywide, coated, coccidae, cockeyed, cutout, coat, cathode, cute, cd, cachet, chetah, cookout, cd-wo, chassid, cough out, chit, cicada, cookie-sized, cook out, Cahoot, checkout, costa, costia, coot, coccoidea, casket, city, chasid, coquette, cheat, cookie sheet, cacatua, chased, choctaw, cushat, chad, casuist, chess set, casquet, case study, caudate, cjd, coati, cauda, cowed, catty, choked, caudata, case shot, caddo, coatee, coccoid, cathay, chicot, chute, cassite, chastity, cicadidae, chagatai, cut, chuck out, cockade, caddy, caseate, cody, cowshed, cecity, cooked, cottidae, chait, cockatoo, costate, couthie, cousteau, cudweed, chesty, cote, cast away, cosset, coccidia, cow's head, cuscuta, cud, cestidae, cocotte, cassocked, cut out, cyathea, cadet, couthy, chahta, cheetah, cast, chatty, chew out, cestida, ct, cut away, cocuswood, cedi, cahita, check out, couth, COD, cogged, cathaya, cocteau, chest, cutaway, caddie, cd8, cassette, cash out, coact, caste, cot, cowhide, castaway, cycad, cootie, cut to, coda, chat, c.o.d., Catha, cestode, cwt, cussed, cicuta, coexist, cost, cad, co-ed, cede, cst.

Hyponym for Custody:

• n.

  • act
    imprisonment, internment.
  • state
    confinement.