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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prisoner \Pris"on*er\, n. [F. prisonnier.]
1. One who is confined in a prison. --Piers Plowman.
2. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prisoner
n : a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn:
{captive}]
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