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prisonguard

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 prisonguard — “prison + guard”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of prison guard.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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