prisoner
noun/ˈpɹɪzənə/UK/ˈpɹɪzənɚ/CA
Etymology
Definitions
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
- Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.
Any person held against their will.
- And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
- I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.
- I'm a prisoner of your love.
- You're not a hit and run driver, no no, racing away. You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
The neighborhood
- synonyminmate
- synonymprisoner
- synonymguest of Her Majesty
- neighborimprison
- neighborprison
- neighborcaptive
- neighborconvict
- neighborjailbird
- neighbordetainee
- neighborghost prisoner
- neighborlifer
- neighborpolitical prisoner
- neighborPOW
- neighborprisoner of conscience
- neighborprisoner of war
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at prisoner. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at prisoner. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at prisoner
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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