Meaning & use
confines
The limits or boundaries of an area, activity, or subject.
See it in a sentence
Within the confines of the small apartment, they somehow raised four children.
The debate stayed strictly within the confines of the assigned topic.
A note on using this word
Confines is almost always used in the plural, even when referring to a single bounded space.
Words with a similar meaning
boundarieslimits
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