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POLITICAL PRISONER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does political prisoner mean?
• POLITICAL PRISONER (noun)
The noun POLITICAL PRISONER has 1 sense:
1. someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
Familiarity information: POLITICAL PRISONER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("political prisoner" is a kind of...):
captive; prisoner (a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war)
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