| 词组 | prisoner |
| 释义 | prisoner /ˈprɪzənə $ -ər/ noun someone who is kept in a prison as a legal punishment for a crime or while they are waiting for their trialadjectivesa political prisoner (=one who is in prison because of their political opinions) We demand that the military government free all political prisoners.an escaped prisoner Soldiers arrived, looking for escaped prisoners.a remand prisoner BrE (=one who is kept in prison until their trial is completed) The jail houses up to 200 remand prisoners.a condemned prisoner (=one who is going to be punished by being killed) Condemned prisoners can appeal against their sentence.verbs + prisonerrelease/free a prisoner Hundreds of political prisoners were released.execute a prisoner Many states use a lethal injection to execute prisoners.prisoner + verbsa prisoner escapes No prisoner has ever escaped from this prison.a prisoner is held somewhere Prisoners are being held in police stations because the prisons are all full. a prisoner serves a sentence (=spends a period of time in prison as a punishment) The state decides whether a prisoner serving a life sentence can ever be released.phrasesa prisoner of conscience (=someone who is put in prison for their beliefs) All eight men are prisoners of conscience, detained for peaceful protest.a prisoner of war (=a member of the armed forces kept as a prisoner by an enemy during a war) He spent five years as a prisoner of war at the camp.THESAURUS: prisoner convict especially written someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase an escaped convict: The convicts were sent from England to Australia. | Police were hunting for an escaped convict. | Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands. inmate someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital: Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. | He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man. captive especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature: Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. | She was held captive (=kept as a prisoner) in the jungle for over three years. prisoner of war a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy’s country: My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. | They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war. hostage someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achieve a political aim: Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages (=make them be released). | The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year. detainee someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial: In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. | The detainees at Guantanamo Bay were supposed to be some of the most dangerous prisoners in the world. |
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