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guardrooms

guardrooms is the plural of guardroom.

Meaning of guardroom

Noun

guardroom (plural guardrooms)

  1. A room used by soldiers when on guard.
    • There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132
  2. A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.

Questions about guardrooms

What is guardrooms the plural of?
Guardrooms is the plural of guardroom.

Words near guardrooms in the dictionary

  1. guardposts
  2. guardrail
  3. guardrailed
  4. guardrails
  5. guardroom
  6. guardrooms
  7. guards
  8. guards against
  9. guards of honor
  10. guards of honour
  11. guards of vambrace

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