prisoner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who is confined

   especially a prisoner of war

2. 2
   noun

   A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.

   Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.