prisoner
Other forms: prisoners
A prisoner is a person being held in prison as a punishment. During wartime a prisoner is someone held captive by the enemy. Alternately, if you’re so attractive you can’t leave the house, you’re a prisoner of your own good looks.
Someone who's caught robbing a bank or stealing a car will probably become a prisoner, locked inside a prison for as long as the sentence specifies. If you feel stuck or confined in some way, you may consider yourself a metaphorical prisoner, like an actor who whines that he’s a prisoner of his own success, since he’s not able to go anywhere without cameras flashing and fans screaming.
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a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of warsynonyms: captivetypes:hostage, suretya prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified termsinterneea person who is internedpolitical prisonersomeone who is imprisoned because of their political viewslifera prisoner serving a term of life imprisonmenttrustya convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privilegestype of:
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Vocabulary lists containing prisoner
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "one who; action or process."