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What (who) is prisoner - definition
prisoner
![''To Visit the Imprisoned'' by Flemish artist [[Cornelis de Wael]] c. 1640](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cornelis De Wael - To Visit the Imprisoned - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "''To Visit the Imprisoned'' by Flemish artist [[Cornelis de Wael]] c. 1640")
![Finnish]] serial killer [[Johan Adamsson]], also known as "Kerpeikkari", in the 1849 lithography by [[Johan Knutson]]<ref>[https://www.finna.fi/Record/musketti.M012:HK10000:3979 Johan Knutsonin kivipiirros moninkertaisesta murhamiehestä Juhani Aataminpojasta]</ref> while he was imprisoned](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnAdamson.jpg?width=200 "Finnish]] serial killer [[Johan Adamsson]], also known as \"Kerpeikkari\", in the 1849 lithography by [[Johan Knutson]]<ref>[https://www.finna.fi/Record/musketti.M012:HK10000:3979 Johan Knutsonin kivipiirros moninkertaisesta murhamiehestä Juhani Aataminpojasta]</ref> while he was imprisoned")
![A police bus used by the [[Maharashtra Police]] in [[Mumbai]], [[India]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mumbai Police Bus.JPG?width=200 "A police bus used by the [[Maharashtra Police]] in [[Mumbai]], [[India]].")
![[[Gustave Doré]]'s image of the exercise yard at [[Newgate Prison]] (1872)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Newgate-prison-exercise-yard.jpg?width=200 "[[Gustave Doré]]'s image of the exercise yard at [[Newgate Prison]] (1872)")
![A scene in [[Newgate Prison]], London](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Bashful Model.jpg?width=200 "A scene in [[Newgate Prison]], London")
PERSON WHO IS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY AGAINST THEIR WILL
Prisoners; Inmates; Federal inmate; Inmate; Guest of Her Majesty; Guest of His Majesty; Psychological effects of incarceration; Prisonization; Prisonize
n.
1) to take smb. prisoner; to take a prisoner (we took many prisoners)
2) a political prisoner
prisoner
PERSON WHO IS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY AGAINST THEIR WILL
Prisoners; Inmates; Federal inmate; Inmate; Guest of Her Majesty; Guest of His Majesty; Psychological effects of incarceration; Prisonization; Prisonize
n.
Captive.
prisoner
PERSON WHO IS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY AGAINST THEIR WILL
Prisoners; Inmates; Federal inmate; Inmate; Guest of Her Majesty; Guest of His Majesty; Psychological effects of incarceration; Prisonization; Prisonize
(prisoners)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A prisoner is a person who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime that they have committed.
The committee is concerned about the large number of prisoners sharing cells.
= inmate
N-COUNT
2.
A prisoner is a person who has been captured by an enemy, for example in war.
...wartime hostages and concentration-camp prisoners...
He was taken prisoner in North Africa in 1942.
N-COUNT: also hold/take n N
3.
If you say that you are a prisoner of a situation, you mean that your are trapped by it.
We are all prisoners of our childhood and feel an obligation to it...
N-COUNT: N of n
Wikipedia
Prisoner
A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement, captivity, or forcible restraint.
Examples of use of prisoner
1. "For instance, suppose a prisoner finds out another prisoner has money or other assets.
2. Mashaal called Shalit a prisoner of war and demanded a prisoner swap _ which Olmert has ruled out.
3. "The murderer Kuntar is not my personal prisoner, he is a prisoner of the State of Israel.
4. He refused to confirm the prisoner exchange – or give details – but said one Taleban prisoner had refused to go free.
5. Prisoner swap Nasrallah also said "contacts" for negotiations on a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah had already begun.