birth vs confinement

confinement vs birth

birth and confinement both are nouns.

birth is a verb but confinement is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
birth	Yes	No	Yes	No
confinement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, confinement is a hyponym of birth; that is, confinement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than birth:

birth: the process of giving birth
confinement: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Other hyponyms of birth include brooding, incubation, calving, accouchement, childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth, farrow, farrowing, hatch, hatching, egg laying, laying, childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail.

birth (noun)	confinement (noun)
the event of being born	the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
a baby born; an offspring	the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
the process of giving birth	the state of being confined
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents	concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
the time when something begins (especially life)

birth (verb)	confinement (verb)
cause to be born

Difference between birth and confinement

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