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hostages

We have found lemma(root) word of hostages : hostage.

Definitions


[ˈhɒstɪdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition
(e.g: three hostages were released but only after their families paid an estimated $200,000 to the guerrillas)


Phrases:
- hold someone hostage
- hostage to fortune

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin obsidatus ‘the state of being a hostage’ (the earliest sense in English), from Latin obses, obsid- ‘hostage’




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