Definitions for hostage

hostage hos·tage

Spelling: [hos-tij]
IPA: /ˈhɒs tɪdʒ/

Hostage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in hostage (aeghost).

Definitions for hostage

noun

  1. a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
  2. Archaic. a security or pledge.
  3. Obsolete. the condition of a hostage.

verb (used with object)

  1. to give (someone) as a hostage:

Origin of hostage

1225-75; Middle English Old French hostage (h- by association with (h)oste host2), ostage ≪ Vulgar Latin *obsidāticum state of being a hostage Latin obsid-

Examples for hostage

One hostage died en route, the Journal reported, while the other died on the operating table.

For even if Bishop yielded to their demand, they would retain her as a hostage.

If the Prince is a hostage for your safety, then he must be sacrificed.

With even that hope to get even with him, I will not kill you, yet I must have that money or a hostage.

Two hostages are dead and 15 others free after an Islamic radical took them hostage before police killed him.

He has, for this reason, resolved to detain you in it, as a hostage for them.

There was a man who said his boyfriend was holding him hostage with a gun.

And then he had given a hostage to fortune, or his father had for him.

ISIS continues to hold one more American hostage, a 26-year-old female aid worker.

They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.

Word Value for hostage
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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