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JAILOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jailor mean? 

JAILOR (noun)
  The noun JAILOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who guards prisonersplay

  Familiarity information: JAILOR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JAILOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who guards prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gaoler; jailer; jailor; prison guard; screw; turnkey

Hypernyms ("jailor" is a kind of...):

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Derivation:

jail (lock up or confine, in or as in a jail)


 Context examples 


He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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