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Inmate
//ˈɪn.meɪt// noun
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Noun
- 1 A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- 2 a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison wordnet
- 3 A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
"[T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road."
- 4 one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) wordnet
- 5 Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle. uncommon
"P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_...""
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- 6 a patient who is residing in the hospital where they are being treated wordnet
Etymology
From inn + -mate, or from in- + -mate.
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