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 Examples- The 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
Topics Crime and punishmentc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + inmateinmate + verbinmate + nounprepositionSee full entry 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.