an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. the state of being interned; confinement.

What does the internment mean?

: the act of putting someone in a prison for political reasons or during a war : the act of interning someone : the state of being interned.

What is an example of internment?

The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime. The definition of internment is imprisonment or confinement. ... An example of internment is when the Jews were kept imprisoned in concentration camps by Hitler.