gaoler
gaoler noun: dated spelling of jailer.
Noun
gaoler (plural gaolers)
- Dated spelling of jailer.
- The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXIII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
- One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.1890, William Booth, chapter 7, in In Darkest England and the Way Out
gaoler meaning in Malayalam
gaoler in Malayalam
- jailer, warden, prison officer
- ജയിലർ, ജയിൽ സൂക്ഷിപ്പുകാരൻ, ജയിലുദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, ജയിലധികാരി, കാരാധികാരി, കാരാധിപൻ
Forms of gaoler
| plural | gaolers |
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Origin of gaoler
By surface analysis, gaol + -er.
Words formed from gaoler
Words that rhyme with gaoler
Questions about gaoler
- What does gaoler mean?
- Gaoler means dated spelling of jailer.
- What is gaoler in Malayalam?
- Gaoler in Malayalam is ജയിലർ, ജയിൽ സൂക്ഷിപ്പുകാരൻ, ജയിലുദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ. See Gaoler meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is gaoler?
- Gaoler is a noun.
- What is the plural of gaoler?
- The plural of gaoler is gaolers.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gaoler (page history and authors); gaoler (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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