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jailor

jailor is the alternative spelling of jailer.

Meaning of jailer

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

Forms of jailor

pluraljailors

Origin of jailor

By surface analysis, jail + -or.

Words formed from jailor

Questions about jailor

What is jailor the alternative spelling of?
Jailor is the alternative spelling of jailer.

Words near jailor in the dictionary

  1. jailless
  2. jaillike
  3. jailmate
  4. jailmates
  5. Jailolo
  6. jailor
  7. jailoress
  8. jailoresses
  9. jailors
  10. jails
  11. jailsful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jailor (page history and authors); jailer (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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