warder
/ˈwɔːdə
/noun chiefly British
A guard in a prison.The escapees, who were apparently being guarded by three prison warders while the others fought the fire, overpowered them and fled into the surrounding rural areas....
- It irritated many, myself included, to hear that the prison warders of Wakefield Jail had been ordered to take off the England flag tie pins they were wearing to raise cash for a cancer charity.
- Yet, unaccountably, once he was faced with prisons, prisoners and warders, Balfour stopped entertaining the people.
Synonyms
prison officer, guard, jailer, (prison) warden, keeper;
sentry, captor
informal screw
archaic turnkey
Origin
Late Middle English (denoting a watchman or sentinel): from Anglo-Norman French wardere, from Old Northern French warder 'to guard'. The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.
Rhymes
- hullabaloo
- Hull, Bobby
- Hull, Cordell
- hulled
- hullo
- hum
- human
- human affairs
- human anatomy
- humanate
- humanation
- human beatbox
- human being
- human biology
- human bomb
- human BSE
- human cannonball
- human capital
- human chain
- human chorionic gonadotrophin
- human condition
- hum and ha
- hum and haw (or hem and haw)
- human document
- humane