name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
warder
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
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homophone: water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping)
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CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A guard, especially in a prison.
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noun
Meaning 3
One who or that which wards or repels.
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noun
Meaning 4
A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25, When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind, Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
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noun
Meaning 5
a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: lawman, law officer, peace officer
Narrower terms: wardress
History
Etymology
Habitational surname, from the village of Wardour, Wiltshire, named with Old English weard (“guard”) + ōra (“bank, slope”).
From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”).
From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: надзирател (nadziratel) — guard
- Bulgarian: тъмничар (tǎmničar) — guard
- Burmese: ထောင်ကြပ် (htaungkrap) — guard
- Czech: dozorce — guard
- Czech: bachař — guard
- Galician: garda — guard
- German: Wärter — guard
- German: Gefängniswärter — guard
- German: Wächter — guard
- Hungarian: börtönőr — guard
- Irish: bairdéir — guard
- Italian: carceriere — guard
- Italian: secondino — guard
- Italian: guardiano — guard
- Italian: custode — guard
- Italian: sorvegliante — guard
- Portuguese: guarda — guard
- Scottish Gaelic: maor-coimhid — guard
- Telugu: జైలు అధికారి (jailu adhikāri) — guard
- Ottoman Turkish: زندانجی (zindâncı) — guard
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