inmate

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

one of the people living in an institution such as a prison or a mental hospital: The jail has 500 inmates. * He was attacked by a fellow inmate.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

inmateEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary inmateEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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Is inmate a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, inmate is tagged as noun.

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