inmate
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- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɪn.meɪt/
Definition of inmate
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
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noun
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
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A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.”
“[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.”
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(uncommon)Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
“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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Etymology
From inn + -mate, or from in- + -mate.
Words you can make from inmate
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- MANE 6 pts
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- MEAT 6 pts
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- MINA 6 pts
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- NAME 6 pts
- NEMA 6 pts
- TAME 6 pts
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- TIME 6 pts
- ANTE 4 pts
- ANTI 4 pts
- ETNA 4 pts
- NEAT 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- TAIN 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TIAN 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
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