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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.

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

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

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

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

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis

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

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

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
Olivier Martinez

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
Akshay Kumar



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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