Definitions for inmate

inmate in·mate

Spelling: [in-meyt]
IPA: /ˈɪnˌmeɪt/

Inmate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in inmate (aeimnt).

Definitions for inmate

noun

  1. a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
  2. Archaic. a person who dwells with others in the same house.

Origin of inmate

First recorded in 1580-90; in-1 + mate1

Examples for inmate

May peace be an inmate of his bosom, and rapture a frequent visitor of his soul!

However, if an inmate cannot find a job, he should expect to sleep outside with other homeless inmates.

It sounded as though the inmate had knocked over the table and chairs.

Her name was Lucie Druon, and she was an inmate of an orphan asylum.

And to interfere with the inmate of a harem is just about impossible.

If it keeps up tomorrow night we could rescue every inmate in the sanitarium.

In none of the weddings Joplin has performed did the inmate have more than five years to serve.

The last federal position he held was inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money.

The woman had accompanied a friend who was visiting her boyfriend when she met the inmate she would marry.

Yet in the federal system in 2010, more than 75 percent of that money went to inmate wages.

Word Value for inmate
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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