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Prisoner
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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Prisoner
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1.
a person deprived of liberty and kept in prison or some other form of custody as a punishment for a crime, while awaiting trial, or for some other reason
2.
a person confined by any of various restraints
we are all prisoners of time
3. take no prisoners
4. take someone prisoner
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Prisoner
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1.
a person confined in prison, as for some crime
2.
a person held in custody
3.
a person captured or held captive
often in metaphorical usage a prisoner of love
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Prisoner
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1. A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.
2. One deprived of freedom of expression or action: "He was a prisoner of his own personality—of that given set of traits that ... predisposed him to see the world in a certain way, to make certain moves, certain choices" (William H. Hallahan).
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