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jailer

/ˈd͡ʒeɪlə(ɹ)/

jailer noun: one who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.

Noun

jailer (plural jailers)

  1. One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
    • Sometimes some of the ejected ministers preached to them privately, and now and then the jailer allowed Mr. H. to go out in the night to preach to them, and administer the Lord's Supper.1775, Samuel Palmer, The Nonconformist's Memorial
    • But the next morning came, and my coffee was brought by her mother; the next, and the next, by the under jailers; and Angiola continued grievously ill.1883, Silvio Pellico, chapter 32, in My Ten Years' Imprisonment

jailer meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi

jailer in Urdu

داروغہ قید خانہ

jailer in Malayalam

warden, prison officer, warder
ജയിലർ, ജയിലധികാരി, ജയിലുദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, കാരാധികാരി, കാരാധിപൻ, ജയിൽമേധാവി

jailer in Kannada

ಕಾರಾಗೃಹದ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ, ಜೈಲು ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ

jailer in Punjabi

jailer
ਜੇਲ੍ਹਰ jelhar
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jailer in Indonesian
sipir penjara, sipir

Synonyms of jailer

All synonyms of jailer

Forms of jailer

pluraljailers
alternative formjailor
alternative Commonwealth (dated)gaoler
alternative form (archaic)gaolor

Plural of jailer: jailers

Origin of jailer

Inherited from Middle English gayoler, gayler, jayler, from Old French jaiolier, gaiolier, from jaiole. By surface analysis, jail + -er.

Words formed from jailer

Words that rhyme with jailer

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Questions about jailer

What does jailer mean?
Jailer means one who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
What is jailer in Urdu?
Jailer in Urdu is داروغہ قید خانہ. See Jailer meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jailer?
Jailer is a noun.
How do you pronounce jailer?
Jailer is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪlə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of jailer?
The plural of jailer is jailers.

Words near jailer in the dictionary

  1. jailcells
  2. jaildom
  3. jailed
  4. jailee
  5. jailees
  6. jailer
  7. jaileress
  8. jaileresses
  9. jailering
  10. jailers
  11. jailership

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jailer (page history and authors); jailer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jailer (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); jailer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਜੇਲ੍ਹਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). 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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