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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 prisoners
Familiarity information: JAILOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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