WARDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warder mean? 

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

1. a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warder"):

wardress (a woman warder)

Derivation:

ward (watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect)

wardership (the position of warder)

 Context examples 

When the fighting was over there was no one left of our enemies except just the warders, the mates, and the doctor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The warders said it was impossible, but nevertheless the cell was empty, and half in half out of it lay the body of a dead guard.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I addressed myself to one of the two warders, who, I suspected from certain latent indications in their faces, knew pretty well what all this stir was worth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The two warders had been shot and thrown overboard, and so also had the third mate.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He’s got two of the warders and Mercer, the second mate, and he’d get the captain himself, if he thought him worth it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two of the warders were agents of Prendergast, and the second mate was his right-hand man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was a five-hundred-ton boat, and besides her thirty-eight gaol-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)