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PRISONER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
Synonyms:
captive; prisoner
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("prisoner" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prisoner"):
con; convict; inmate; yard bird; yardbird (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison)
detainee; political detainee (some held in custody)
hostage; surety (a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms)
internee (a person who is interned)
political prisoner (someone who is imprisoned because of their political views)
POW; prisoner of war (a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war)
Context examples:
The prisoners were left for the moment standing alone in the middle of the clearing.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had four, but two were killed, one is a prisoner, and I'm going to the other, who is very sick in a Washington hospital.' he answered quietly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Janet reporting it to be quite ready, I was taken up to it; kindly, but in some sort like a prisoner; my aunt going in front and Janet bringing up the rear.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They were chained to the cabin by the necessity of guarding their prisoner.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Bound down a prisoner, denied even movement by the plaster casts and bandages, White Fang lingered out the weeks.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Or they quit their job as a marketing director, applied to law school, passed the Bar, and now defend prisoners in the Innocence Project who were incarcerated unfairly.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They gave him a tap on the head, therefore, to prevent his making too much resistance, and they then drove him off to some farmhouse or stable, where they will hold him a prisoner until the time for the fight is over.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ground covered with snow, and the atmosphere in that unsettled state between frost and thaw, which is of all others the most unfriendly for exercise, every morning beginning in rain or snow, and every evening setting in to freeze, she was for many days a most honourable prisoner.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
