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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.
- [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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Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.uncommon
- 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, f
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