inmate
pronunciation
How to pronounce inmate in British English:
UK [ˈɪnmeɪt]
How to pronounce inmate in American English:
US [ˈɪnmeɪt]
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- Noun:
- one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
- a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
Word Origin
- inmate (n.)
- 1580s, "one allowed to live in a house rented by another" (usually for a consideration), from in "inside" + mate "companion." Sense of "one confined to an institution" is first attested 1834.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Another inmate approaches and quickly hands him a shiv .
- 2. But the inmate population is rising as well .
- 3. Each inmate costs us taxpayers more than $ 22000 a year .
- 4. One inmate requested a single pitted olive .
- 5. An inmate stands in his cell at men 's central jail in los angeles .