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prison guard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From prison + guard.

Meanings

1. An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
   • The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks. 2011, Marc Ian Barasc, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, →ISBN:
   • And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco. 1997, Gary Indiana, Resentment: A comedy, New York: Anchor Books, published 1998, →ISBN, →OL, page 170:
   • During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice promoted, first to tubicen (trumpeter), then to optio carceris (camp prisonguard): ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est. 1987, Arctos: Acta philologica fennica, volumes 21-23, page 29:

Forms

Synonyms

corrections officer · cop · warder · jailor · turnkey · jailer · screw

Translations (38)

ko 교도관 (person working to provide order to in a jail) · it carceriere (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ja 刑務官 (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ro temnicer (person working to provide order to in a jail) · be турэмшчык (person working to provide order to in a jail) · sv fångvaktare (person working to provide order to in a jail) · fr gardien de prison (person working to provide order to in a jail) · fr surveillant pénitentiaire (person working to provide order to in a jail) · de Justizvollzugsbeamte (person working to provide order to in a jail) · fi vanginvartija (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ca escarceller (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ja 看守 (person working to provide order to in a jail) · cmn 獄警 /狱警 (person working to provide order to in a jail) · vi cai ngục (person working to provide order to in a jail) · az zindançı (person working to provide order to in a jail) · az zindanban (person working to provide order to in a jail) · id sipir (person working to provide order to in a jail) · es carcelero (person working to provide order to in a jail) · it agente di custodia (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ru тюре́мный охра́нник (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ru тюре́мщик (person working to provide order to in a jail) · pl strażnik więzienny (person working to provide order to in a jail) · be турэмшчыца (person working to provide order to in a jail) · az həbsxana gözətçisi (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ko 간수 (person working to provide order to in a jail) · it guardia carceraria (person working to provide order to in a jail) · fo fangavørður (person working to provide order to in a jail) · de Gefängniswärter (person working to provide order to in a jail) · it secondino (person working to provide order to in a jail) · nl cipier (person working to provide order to in a jail) · sv fängelsevakt (person working to provide order to in a jail) · fr garde-chiourme (person working to provide order to in a jail) · hu börtönőr (person working to provide order to in a jail) · de Schließer (person working to provide order to in a jail) · ro gardian (person working to provide order to in a jail) · nl gevangenisbewaarder (person working to provide order to in a jail) · nl gevangenbewaarder (person working to provide order to in a jail) · az həbsxanaçı (person working to provide order to in a jail)