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jailer Definition

jailer (-ər)

noun

a person in charge of a jail or of prisoners

jailer Synonyms

jailer

n.

prison guard, corrections officer, turnkey, keeper, gaoler, warden, captor, screw*; see also warden, watchman.

jailer Usage Examples

Possessives

  • daughter: Maybe the jailer's daughter smuggled him in a file in a meat pie.

Converse of object

  • convert: His testimony had converted the jailer and his family.

Adjective modifier

  • philippian: Because of such injustices the Philippian jailer and his household was converted, and a whole battalion of Roman soldiers heard the Gospel.
  • leading: How did the Land of the Free become the world's leading jailer?
  • American: His lawyer said his American military jailers were force feeding him.
  • Iraqi: My Iraqi jailers did everything they could to extract the names of my co-conspirators.
  • chief: Trace the story of Thomas Covell, chief jailer of Lancaster for nearly 50 years.
jailer Quotes

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.He it iswho notesthat individuality whichistheseal oftheweakness ofourrace.Mysoul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

—Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne

You were the jailer of your murdererö

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

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