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GUARDHOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guardhouse mean?
• GUARDHOUSE (noun)
The noun GUARDHOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained
Familiarity information: GUARDHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("guardhouse" is a kind of...):
headquarters; HQ; military headquarters (the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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