prisoner

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.

Or is she merely a prisoner? — His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
"Through one of them Prisoners' Help Societies. — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
He had discovered the prisoner was gone. — Law-star for an outlaw, W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

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