WARDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warden mean? 

• WARDEN (noun)
  The noun WARDEN has 1 sense:

1. the chief official in charge of a prison

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief official in charge of a prison

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Derivation:

wardenship (the position of warden)

 Context examples 

Five times we have had to beg and pray ere we could pass. Twice I have paid toll to the wardens of the road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The guard treated him unfairly, lied about him to the warden, lost his credits, persecuted him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)