Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A resident of a dwelling that houses a number of occupants, especially a person confined to an institution, such as a prison or hospital.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is a mate or associate in the occupancy of a place; hence, an indweller; an associated lodger or inhabitant: as, the inmates of a dwelling-house, factory, hospital, or prison.
- Dwelling in the same place; residing jointly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger
- adjective rare Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person
confined to aninstitution such as aprison (as aconvict ) orhospital (as apatient ) - noun A person who
occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
- noun a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- noun one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This officer indicates that the inmate is a mature, fairly stable individual in whose life the prison sentence is an isolated incident.
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This inmate is a recidivist of long standing and has no trouble in adjusting to prison routines ...
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Does he really think “steal [ing] hubcaps or whatever” describes what the typical prison inmate is in there for?
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An inmate is not a resident of his former district.
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An inmate is not a resident of his former district.
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Wisconsin inmate can't play Dungeons & Dragons - Seems that this inmate, down for life due to first-degree murder, has been banned form playing D&D (well, now it's everyone there, of course).
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"Sure, we write about a lot of the good things that are happening in prison," says Aly Tamboura, the technical editor of the San Quentin News and a relatively shorter-term inmate than many of his colleagues.
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"Sure, we write about a lot of the good things that are happening in prison," says Aly Tamboura, the technical editor of the San Quentin News and a relatively shorter-term inmate than many of his colleagues.
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"Sure, we write about a lot of the good things that are happening in prison," says Aly Tamboura, the technical editor of the San Quentin News and a relatively shorter-term inmate than many of his colleagues.
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An South Carolinian inmate is suing Vick, and had some pretty damning evidence to back up his claims: Jonathan Lee Riches filed the handwritten complaint over "theft and abuse of my animals" on July 23 in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va.
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