hostage
hostage is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- agency
- agent
- agentship
- and
- appointment
- assignment
- attorney
- authority
- bird
- brevet
- captive
- capture
- charge
- charter
- clerkship
- close
- commission
- consignee
- consignment
- coronation
- custody
- delegate
- delegation
- deputation
- deputy
- designation
- diploma
- doing
- durance
- embassy
- enthronement
- errand
- exequatur
- inauguration
- inmate
- installation
- investiture
- jail
- key
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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