Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   enclosure

   /ɛnˈkləʊʒə/

   noun

   • 1. an area that is surrounded by a barrier: "a deer enclosure" Similar paddockfoldpencompoundstockaderingyardpoundstycoopcageparrockcorralkraalpotrerorare:circumvallation
   • ▪ a section of a racecourse for a specified activity or group of people: British "the members' enclosure" Similar areaspecial areaassigned areacompoundarenaboxcompartment
   • ▪ a barrier that surrounds an area: "the cemetery lay within a high walled enclosure"
   • 2. the state of being enclosed, especially in a religious community: "the nuns kept strict enclosure"
   • ▪ the process or policy of fencing in wasteland or common land so as to make it private property, as pursued in much of Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries: historical "one of the chief effects of enclosure was to increase the number of landless workers"
   • 3. a document or object placed in an envelope together with a letter. Similar insertioninclusionadditionthing enclosed

   Word Origin late Middle English: from legal Anglo-Norman French and Old French, from enclos ‘closed in’ (see enclose).

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • C

     3

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • S

     1

   • U

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points