Prisoner

/ˈpɹɪzənə/ · noun

Meaning

A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
2. Any person held against their will.
3. A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.

Example Sentences

Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.

The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.

American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were among the 24 detainees released as part of a complex prisoner swap between Russia, the US and other Western nations. […] Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.

And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.

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.

I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.

I'm a prisoner of your love.

You're not a hit and run driver, no no, racing away. You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

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