prison guard

noun

Etymology

From prison + guard.

  1. derived from *wardāną — “to guard, protect
  2. derived from *wardēn
  3. derived from wardo
  4. derived from garder
  5. compounded as prison guard — “prison + guard

Definitions

  1. An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent…

    An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.

    • And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco.
    • During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est.
    • The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA