Difference between Captive and Prisoner

What is the difference between Captive and Prisoner?

Captive as a noun is a person who has been captured or is otherwise confined while Prisoner as a noun is a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.

Captive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a person who has been captured or is otherwise confined a person held prisoner

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: held prisoner; not free; confined

Example sentence: When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Prisoner

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.Any person held against his or her will.

Example sentence: I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.

We hope you now know whether to use Captive or Prisoner in your sentence.

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