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Convict vs Prisoner - What's the difference?

convict | prisoner |

As nouns the difference between convict and prisoner

is that convict is a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body while prisoner is a person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.

As a verb convict

is to find guilty.

convict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To find guilty
  • # as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
  • # informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.

    • Synonyms

    * (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapprove

    Related terms

    * conviction

    Noun

    (wikipedia convict) (en noun)
  • (legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  • A person deported to a penal colony.
  • A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.

    • Synonyms

    * (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonist

    Derived terms

    * con (synonym)

    prisoner

    English

    (wikipedia prisoner)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  • Any person held against their will.
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

    • Related terms

    * imprison * prison