- a person who guards; watchman
- a person who guards an entrance
- Chiefly Brit. a prison guard or officer
Origin of warder
Middle English wardere from Anglo-French wardour, for Old French garder: see guard
noun
The definition of a warder is a guard in a prison.
An example of a warder is a prison guard.
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warder
a staff or rod formerly carried by a king, commander, etc. as a mark of authority, and used to signal his wishes
Origin of warder
Late Middle English from wardrer, a club from uncertain or unknown; perhaps warden, wardWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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warder
noun
- A guard, porter, or watcher of a gate or tower.
- Chiefly British A prison guard.
Origin of warder
Middle English from Anglo-Norman wardere from Old North French warder to guard ; see warden .Related Forms:
- war′der·ship′
noun
noun
A baton formerly used by a ruler or commander as a symbol of authority and to signal orders.
Origin of warder
Middle English possibly from warden to ward from Old English weardian ; see wer-3 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural warders)
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Sentence Examples
- Educated at Toronto University, he became a lecturer in English at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and held that post until 1885, when he gave up teaching for journalism, being editor and proprietor of the Lindsay Warder from 1885 to 1897.
- Yds., is provided with an electric bell communicating with the warder in the tower, heated by hot-air pipes, and lighted by day through a window on the outer wall of the rotunda, and from sunset till ten o'clock by electric light.
- Hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hldf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language), in its primary sense, the head of a household, the master of those dependent on him for their daily bread, correlative to O.
- The Greeks identified this constellation with the nymph Callisto, placed in the heavens by Zeus in the form of a bear together with her son Arcas as " bear-warder," or Arcturus; they named it Arctos, the she-bear, Helice, from its turning round the pole-star.