Inmate

//ˈɪn.meɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
  2. 2
    a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 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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