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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.
  2. n. 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).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who keeps a prison; a jailer.
  2. n. One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
  3. n. A person under arrest or in custody of the law, whether in prison or not: as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
  4. n. A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
  5. n. One who or that which is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.
  6. n. In mech., a piece of metal used to connect two adjacent parts of the rim of a fly-wheel. The prisoner is usually put in place in recesses in the rim while hot, so that its contraction during cooling will draw the two parts of the rim together very tightly.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  2. n. Any person held against his or her will.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who is confined in a prison.
  2. n. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

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  • oroboros "The Prisoner" (aka: "Bowling for Number Six") ;^) Aug 22, 2007

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