prisoner
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
prisoner (plural prisoners)
- A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
- Any person held against their will.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- French: prisonnier, prisonnière
- German: Gefangener, Gefangene, Häftling
- Italian: prigioniero, prigioniera
- Portuguese: prisioneiro, preso
- Russian: заключённый
- Spanish: prisionero, preso
- French: prisonnier
- German: Gefangener, Gefangene
- Portuguese: prisioneiro, preso
- Russian: пле́нный
- Spanish: prisionero, preso
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