prisoner

[ priz-uh-ner, priz-ner ]
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noun
  1. a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.

  1. a person or thing that is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.

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Origin of prisoner

1
1300–50; Middle English <Anglo-French. See prison, -er2

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prisoner

/ (ˈprɪzənə) /


noun
  1. a person deprived of liberty and kept in prison or some other form of custody as a punishment for a crime, while awaiting trial, or for some other reason

  2. a person confined by any of various restraints: we are all prisoners of time

  1. take no prisoners informal to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions

  2. take someone prisoner to capture and hold someone as a prisoner, esp as a prisoner of war

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