Dictionary Entry

ransom

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈɹænsəm/Used In Literature ↓

Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.

In a Sentence

“They were held for two million dollars ransom.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. ransommoney ransomransom croweransom harry

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Poetry examples for “ransom”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

For none a ransom can be paid,
A suretyship be made:

Peck, Pope, Porter, Prentiss, Price, Pulitzer, Quay,
Quimby. R—Ramsey, Randall, Ransom, Rollins.
Reed, Reno, Reynolds, Richardson, Ricketts,

I bore it ; friends soothed me ; my grief looked sublime
As the ransom of Italy. One boy remained
To be leant on and walked with, recalling the time

follows kind,
Their ransom, their rescue, and first, fast, last friend.

Adams Ralph M 988Dillo(Sl) Elan 1-5044
Adams Ransom Jr 835Apgar HUmbit 3-5484
Adams Ray 374-41st OLympc 3-4725

As any in the town,
She's worth a ploughman's ransom
In the drab cotton gown."

Ransom, then, is doing for his own state what Frost
has done for New England, Vache] Lindsay for his

* More lately I met Mr. Louis Untermeyer who knew
about Ransom and seemed to rate his work as highly

Pay ransom to the owner,
And fill the bag to the brim.

But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.