prisoner
Pronunciation
[change]Noun
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- (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.
- (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.