enclosed

adjective

Contained; held within a container.

Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.

(music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.

Roots

claudoclos- · Latin · close, shut

Synonyms for enclosed

fencedn surroundedadj walledn envelopedv confinedadj cloisteredadj cagedv quarantinedadj immuredv

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