1A person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or activity or for enforcing the regulations associated with it.

1. 1.1British The head of certain schools, colleges, or other institutions.
   the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford

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   • Professor Jessica Rawson, warden of Merton College, said no able student should be deterred from applying to Oxford by financial concerns.
   • Alan Ryan is a warden at New College, Oxford University.
   • There has been a letter from the warden of Morley College blaming Moloko's for distress to their residents.
   • The warden of the College expressed the consensus of these essays in this way.
   • Now shopkeepers on Manchester Road have sent a petition to Pendle Borough Council complaining Parkwise wardens are damaging their business by booking shoppers who park for just a couple of minutes too long.

   Synonyms

   principal, head, governor, master, mistress, rector, provost, president, chief, director, chancellor, vice chancellor

   North American informal prexy, prex
2. 1.2 A prison officer.
   securely handcuffed to a warden, he was taken to Wandsworth Prison

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   • The warden dismissed the accusations made by Smith and the other prisoners as lies and exaggerations.
   • Waiters and waitresses wear prison uniforms and the busboys are dressed like policemen and wardens.
   • While behind bars, he takes up boxing at the urging of the warden (having bitten the ear off the prison bully in a fight) and finds a new desire to actually do something with his life.
   • The warden wants Crewe to coach the prison guards' football team, in hopes of acquiring some kind of semi-pro national championship.
   • Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.
   • I was put in jail, but every day the warden let me read what had been printed locally about my case that day.
   • She said that protesters had complained about rude treatment by wardens and also demanded an opportunity to freely distribute money among convicts without consulting the wardens.
   • After leaving the military Kerik worked for a private security firm in Saudi Arabia and served as a prison warden in New Jersey in 1986.
   • The wardens of some of the police court prisons say they have more public spitters in their custody than any other class of offender.
   • Presented by a large cast of colourful characters, The Quare Fellow paints a portrait of life inside an Irish prison, in which songs, humour and compassion evoke the banter between inmates and wardens.
   • The conflict is turning into a full - blown tragedy, with both sides cast in the role of warden and prisoner.
   • For a warden, the need for both routine and vigilance means experiencing radical swings in emotion several times each day.
   • A martial arts expert, he had served in the military, worked as the warden of a county jail in New Jersey, and later as a security contractor for the Saudi monarchy.
   • He held baby son Ben only once, handcuffed to prison wardens and given no time alone, before Ben died.
   • Saki sat down and was handcuffed to his seat just as the jail warden walked on to the platform at the front of the room.
   • The senate commission is also likely to recommend a purge of lying wardens and rogue guards.
   • I was unable to speak to them but if you yelled loudly enough through the small slot in the door you could communicate with other prisoners until the wardens came along to break it up.
   • Also making the garden safer, 24/7 Security Services provides security and has donated batons and handcuffs for wardens.
   • There are wardens that spit at their prisoners, and deny them all hygiene, medicine and, it seems, food.
   • The offices in Talo Udang Bay became the headquarters of the warden and in June 1941 the first group of 500 prisoners arrived.

   Synonyms

   prison officer, guard, jailer, (prison) warder, (prison) wardress, keeper, sentry, captor

   informal screw
3. 1.3North American A prison governor.
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   • Those are offenses properly addressed by judges, juries, and prison wardens.
   • The former warden of Parchman prison in Mississippi spoke out against capital punishment.
   • Born and raised in Penghu, Ou showed her love for her hometown by setting up a writing class at Ting Wang Prison after being invited by Liao Teh-fu, former warden of the prison, to give a speech to its inmates.
   • She will be sworn in September 16 as the first black female warden of a Wisconsin state prison.
   • After all, they knew Young worked in Virginia and probably lived there too, as he was the warden of the very prison they were investigating.
   • Frank Conley, who served as warden until 1921, shaped the prison's philosophy and appearance.
   • The son of the prison warden, he embarked on a career of redesigning and refining execution devices.
   • Alta Boover had a blast as Prince Orlofsky, giving us all a treat with her antics, and Jeremiah Butterfield was suitably gauché as Frank, the prison warden.
   • The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
   • On his arrival at The Castle, Irwin is met by prison warden, Colonel Winter, who talks openly of his admiration for his new inmate.
   • New York City Prisons warden Sidney Brewster said ‘every addict is a potential criminal.’
   • Of the disturbed prisoners he wrote credulously, ‘The warden of the prison has assured us that they arrived in this state at the prison.’
   • We met the prison warden, who was a little man in an ill fitting uniform, but he told us, ‘Preach the Word because these men need the Gospel.’
   • In the petition, a prison warden attests that Rahman has ‘worked hard in trying to be a positive influence on other death row inmates.’
   • Keeping drugs out of prisons is what wardens try to do.
   • The Semarang prison warden later contacted the Cipinang Penitentiary warden, who in turn contacted the Supreme Court.
   • She quoted prison warden General Braddon as saying ‘many, many prisoners have already died’ there, mainly from dysentery and pneumonia.
   • The prison warden in this case will undoubtedly ask the Supreme Court to review this case.
   • Prisoners spend twenty two and a half hours a day locked in a small, permanently lit, windowless cell, buried alive on the orders of the warden or prison staff, not the courts.
   • Most recipes involve fresh fruit and wardens at some prisons have went so far as to ban fruit from prisoners' meals in hopes of curtailing production.
   • Then the Sheriff began to relate the history of Jake, or the amount that Warden Doyle had told him of, and how Jake and the prison warden had become friends.
   • If a second disciplinary hearing does take place, Boesak will appear before the prison warden, management and other key players.
   • This guy is on a tour of the state prison with the warden.
   • Legend has it that wardens of some federal prisons kept a picture of Alcatraz in their offices as a warning to troublesome inmates of the price of misbehavior.
   • While other prison wardens are accountable to courts of law for abuses they perpetrate, security forces are not.
   • Their only hope lies in Kate Soffel, the prison warden's sensitive and beautiful wife.
   • Smith, who walks with a limp and is covered with lesions, says the prison warden and another official threatened him.
   • The warden announced that the execution could begin, and I told him that I loved him.
   • A lieutenant warden in the prison recognized his former teacher and trekked down the hill and into Barcelona to leak Tarrida's arrest to the press.
   • The warden of the prison denied accusations that he turned a blind eye to the extortion of prisoners' families by his guards.