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.
  •oversight (noun)
  • over-sights,
  • over sight,
  • over-sight,
  • over sights.
  •possession (noun)
  • possession,
  • proprietary,
  • proprietary rights,
  • possessorship,
  • Proprietaries.
  •protection (noun)
  • auspices,
  • watch,
  • safeguard,
  • aegis,
  • administration (of an estate),
  • trusteeship.
  •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.
  •supervision, charge of something (noun)
  • custodianship,
  • management,
  • tute-lage,
  • preservation,
  • observation.
  •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.

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.