prisoner
noun/ˈprɪznər/
Слово англійською: prisoner
Переклад prisoner українською: в'я́зень, ув'я́знений, арешта́нт, співка́мерник
Детальний опис
- a person who is kept in prison as a punishment, or while they are waiting for trial
- The number of prisoners serving life sentences has fallen.
- They called for the prisoners to be released.
- They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.
- international minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners
- a person who has been captured, for example by an enemy, and is being kept somewhere
- He was taken prisoner by rebel soldiers.
- They are holding her prisoner and demanding a large ransom.
- For three days they kept him a prisoner.
- (figurative) She is afraid to go out and has become a virtual prisoner in her own home.
- (figurative) He was a prisoner of his own ignorance.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French prisonier, from prison, from Latin prensio(n-), variant of prehensio(n-) ‘laying hold of’, from the verb prehendere.