Definition of "inmate" in English

noun

1. A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

2. A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.

3. (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, _∩_..."