prisoner
prisoner 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 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- accusation
- adjudge
- agency
- agent
- agentship
- and
- appointment
- arbiter
- arbitrator
- archon
- assessor
- assignment
- assistant
- assize
- attorney
- authority
- barmaster
- barrister
- beak
- bird
- box
- brevet
- cadi
- captive
- capture
- case
- censor
- chancellor
- charge
- charter
- clerkship
- close
- come
- commission
- common
- conservator
- consignee
- consignment
- coronation
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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