a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
Archaic. a person who dwells with others in the same house.
In none of the weddings Joplin has performed did the inmate have more than five years to serve.
The woman had accompanied a friend who was visiting her boyfriend when she met the inmate she would marry.
The last federal position he held was Inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money.
However, if an inmate cannot find a job, he should expect to sleep outside with other homeless inmates.
Yet in the federal system in 2010, more than 75 percent of that money went to inmate wages.
The position of those who remained was regulated in a series of decrees, adverse to the system, but favourable to the inmate.
The most passing glance would have detected that she was not "one of them," nor had she been long an inmate of this dwelling.
To-night, every inmate was thoroughly miserable, except their guest.
There is another insect out in the garden that ought to be an inmate of every terrarium this fall, the green cabbage-worm.
1580s, "one allowed to live in a house rented by another" (usually for a consideration), from in "inside" + mate "companion." Sense of "one confined to an institution" is first attested 1834.