prisoner
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈprɪzənər/
:
prisionero
- During the war, thousands of soldiers became prisoners of war in enemy territory.
- prisoners of war
- political prisoner
- release the prisoner
Jails are letting prisoners out right now.
- Jails are letting prisoners out right now.
- Because I've spoke to a couple of prisoners, obviously in prison.
- And there were few if any prisoners in the Brig at Quantico.
- And that was basically about I played a Greek prisoner called Panos.
- Really the most high profile prisoner in the whole country.
- What does it have to do with prisoners and convicts?
- The poet prisoner haunts the guard who becomes a prisoner of his paranoia.
- And then even then the treatment options available to prisoners was was restricted.
- You should have brought that up the prisoner Solidarity Network.
Examples
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So all enemy aliens on British Empire soil are now prisoners of war.
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I went there with the Sisters of Mercy to take food to the prisoners.
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It's not just for the prisoner himself.
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Those people are being kept prisoner for a specific purpose, which eventually leads to their death!
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Really the most high profile prisoner in the whole country.
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These are where the prisoners were brought for the last walk.
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The prisoner Captain Bruner will be permitted to make an opening statement.
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Michael has been a model prisoner, and he has done everything that you have asked, and he's remorseful.
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Free the prisoners.
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The guards never seemed to learn that the prisoners' very survival depended on recognizing them.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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3.5
A person kept in a prison, hospital, or similar place
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6.8
A person authorities hold for legal or political reasons
57
4.6
A person or animal kept as a prisoner and not free
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Military checking and limiting of letters and messages sent to and from captured soldiers
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prisoner comes from the old word prison, which itself comes from a French verb prendre meaning 'to take' or 'capture'. So a prisoner is literally someone who has been 'taken' or captured.