[あさまさんそうじけん, asamasansoujiken] (n) Asama-Sanso incident (famous hostage crisis and police siege in Feb. 1972) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hostage \Hos"tage\, n. [OE. hostage, OF. hostage, ostage, F.
[^o]tage, LL. hostaticus, ostaticum, for hospitaticum, fr. L.
hospes guest, host. The first meaning is, the state of a
guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as
a guest); and both these meanings occur in Old French. See
{Host} a landlord.]
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of
the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on
the performance of which the person is to be released.
[1913 Webster]
Your hostages I have, so have you mine;
And we shall talk before we fight. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to
fortune. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hostage
n 1: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another
party will meet specified terms [syn: {hostage}, {surety}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
