inmate

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

   I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.

   [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.

3. 3

   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, _∩_..."

Forms

plural

inmates