inmate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.

   I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.

2. 2
   noun

   Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.

   P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_..."

3. 3
   noun

   a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

4. 4
   noun

   one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)

5. 5
   noun

   a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

6. 6
   noun

   A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

Etymology

From inn + -mate, or from in- + -mate.