英和和英

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɪzənə/, /ˈpɹɪznə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹɪzənɚ/, /ˈpɹɪznɚ/
• ハイフネーション: pri‧son‧er

名詞

prisoner (plural prisoners)

1. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.

   Synonym: jailbird

   Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.

   • 1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law:

     The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.

   • 2024 August 1, Ivana Kottasová and Anna Chernova, “Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?”, in CNN‎:

     American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were among the 24 detainees released as part of a complex prisoner swap between Russia, the US and other Western nations. […] Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.

2. Any person held against their will.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

3. A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.

   I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.

   I'm a prisoner of your love.

   • 1976, “Coyote”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell:

     You're not a hit and run driver, no no, racing away. You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway

派生語

関連する語

• imprison
• prison

アナグラム

• Perrinos, erpornis

名詞

prisoner (plural prisoners)

1. one who imprisons (others); a jailer

語源 2

Borrowed from Old French prisonier; equivalent to prisoun +‎ -er.

別の表記

• prisonere, prysonere, prysoner, presoner
• (Cornwall) prisner

発音

• IPA: /prizuˈneːr/, /ˈprizunər/

名詞

prisoner (plural prisoners or prisoneres)

1. prisoner
2. captive, prisoner of war

派生した語

• English: prisoner