prisoner

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• (Canada) (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈprɪzən/

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Noun

Singular prisoner

Plural prisoners

A prisoner being searched

1. (countable) A prisoner is a person imprisoned, while on trial or serving a sentence.

   The prisoners were let out of their cells each afternoon so they could exercise.

2. (countable) Any person held against his or her will is a prisoner.

   He kept his mother as a prisoner in her bedroom until she agreed to change her will.

Related words

• prison