Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prisoner"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Prisoner \Pris"on*er\, n. [F. prisonnier.]
1. One who is confined in a prison. --Piers Plowman.

2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or
not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive;
as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. --Bouvier.

Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing.
--Keble.

{Prisoner's base}. See {Base}, n., 24.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

prisoner
n : a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn:
{captive}]

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