one of the people living in an institution such as a prison or a psychiatric hospital (监狱或精神病院等的)同住者;同狱犯人;同病房者 The jail has 500 inmates. 这所监狱关押了500名囚犯。 He was attacked by a fellow inmate. 他受到另一囚犯的袭击。
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc1The inmates were transferred to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到了一个秘密处所。 a camp where more than 4 000 inmates are housed 一座关押了 4,000 多名囚犯的集中营 a former inmate of an Ohio prison 以前在俄亥俄监狱的狱友 drug and alcohol misuse among inmates 囚犯中的吸毒和酗酒问题 inmates serving lengthy terms 服长期徒刑的犯人
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fellow
- former
- new
- …
- transfer
- free
- release
- …
- escape
- serve something
- population
- among inmate
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a person who shared a house, specifically a lodger or subtenant): probably originally from inn + mate, later associated with in.