Usually means: Individual confined against their will.
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  1. prisoner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prisoner: Merriam-Webster
  3. prisoner, prisoner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prisoner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prisoner: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prisoner: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prisoner, prisoner: Wordnik
  8. prisoner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prisoner: Wiktionary
  10. prisoner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prisoner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prisoner: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prisoner: Dictionary.com
  14. prisoner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Prisoner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prisoner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prisoner: Rhymezone
  19. prisoner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prisoner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prisoner: FreeDictionary.org
  22. prisoner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prisoner: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. prisoner: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)

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  1. prisoner: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
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  5. prisoner: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Prisoner, prisoner: Encyclopedia

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  1. The Prisoner: Medical dictionary

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  1. prisoner: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
noun:  Any person held against their will.
noun:  A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.

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