Word Meanings - PRISONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, --

Additional info about word: PRISONER

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRISONER)

• Bondsman
• Slave
• serf
• prisoner
• captive
• vassal
• Defendant
• Accused

Related words: (words related to PRISONER)

• ACCUSATIVELY
  1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• BONDSMAN
  A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• VASSALESS
  A female vassal. Spenser.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• ACCUSANT
  An accuser. Bp. Hall.
• ACCUSATIVAL
  Pertaining to the accusative case.
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• VASSALAGE
  1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages."
• VASSAL
  Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.
• ACCUSINGLY
  In an accusing manner.
• ACCUSATION
  1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or
• ACCUSATIVE
  Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition.
• DEFENDANT
  1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• ACCUSEMENT
  Accusation. Chaucer.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• PREACCUSATION
  Previous accusation.
• ENVASSAL
  To make a vassal of.
• SELF-ACCUSED
  Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.