custody
noun
- = care, charge, protection, supervision, preservation, auspices, aegis, tutelage, guardianship, safekeeping, keeping, trusteeship, custodianship •
I'm taking him to court to get custody of the children.
- = imprisonment, detention, confinement, incarceration, duress, durance (archaic) •
Three people appeared in court and two of them were remanded in custody.
'custody' in Other Languages
- British English: custody
Custody is the legal right to look after a child, especially the right given to a child's father or mother when they get divorced.I'm going to court to get custody of my children.ˈkʌstədɪ NOUN - Arabic: وِصَايَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: custódia
- Chinese: 拘留
- Croatian: skrbništvo
- Czech: opatrovnictví
- Danish: forældremyndighed
- Dutch: voogdij
- European Spanish: custodia
- Finnish: holhous
- French: garde de l'enfant
- German: Obhut
- Greek: επιτήρηση
- Italian: custodia
- Japanese: 保護
- Korean: 보관
- Norwegian: forvaring
- Polish: nadzór
- Portuguese: custódia
- Romanian: custodie custodii
- Russian: опека
- Spanish: custodia
- Swedish: fängsligt förvar
- Thai: สิทธิ์ในการดูแลเด็ก
- Turkish: koruma altına alma
- Ukrainian: опіка
- Vietnamese: sự trông nom
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