Usually means: Person confined in a prison.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word inmate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inmate: Merriam-Webster
  2. inmate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inmate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inmate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inmate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inmate, inmate: Wordnik
  7. inmate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inmate: Wiktionary
  9. inmate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inmate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inmate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inmate: Dictionary.com
  13. inmate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inmate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inmate, The Inmate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inmate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inmate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inmate: Rhymezone
  19. Inmate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inmate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inmate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. inmate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inmate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. inmate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. inmate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inmate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. inmate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inmate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inmate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inmate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
noun:  A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
noun:  (uncommon) Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.

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