Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun durance

1 sense of durance

Sense 1
durance -- (imprisonment (especially for a long time))
       => captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement -- (the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon")