prisoner

[PrisĀ·on*er]

A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.

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One who is confined in a prison.

Noun
a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war


n.
One who is confined in a prison.

n.
A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.


Prisoner

Pris"on*er , n. [F. prisonnier.] 1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier.
Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing.
Prisoner's base. See Base, n., 24.

One who is confined in a prison.

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Usage Examples

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

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Other Usage Examples

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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