Definition of Prisoner

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Definition of Prisoner
	Prisoner One who is confined in a prison. 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. Related Definitions: Arrest, As, At, Bar, Captive, Confined, Court, Custody, Held, In, Involuntary, Is, Not, Of, One, Or, Person, Prison, Prisoner, Restraint, The, Under, Whether, Who

Prisoner Quotations

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Martha Washington

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
Dolley Madison

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Henri Matisse

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott

Prisoner Translations

prisoner in Dutch is gevangene
prisoner in Italian is detenuto
prisoner in Portuguese is prisioneiro
prisoner in Spanish is prisionero

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