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prison guard

prison guard noun: an armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.

Noun

prison guard (plural prison guards)

  1. An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
    • 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

prison guard meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Vietnamese

prison guard in Tamil

கைக்கூட்டன்

prison guard in Indonesian

person working to provide order to in a jail
sipir

prison guard in Vietnamese

person working to provide order to in a jail
cai ngục

Synonyms of prison guard

Forms of prison guard

pluralprison guards
alternative formprisonguard

Origin of prison guard

From prison + guard.

Questions about prison guard

What does prison guard mean?
Prison guard means an armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
What is prison guard in Tamil?
Prison guard in Tamil is கைக்கூட்டன். See Prison guard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prison guard?
Prison guard is a noun.
What is the plural of prison guard?
The plural of prison guard is prison guards.

Words near prison guard in the dictionary

  1. prison farms
  2. prison fever
  3. prison flower
  4. prison flowers
  5. prison gay
  6. prison guard
  7. prison guards
  8. prison hooch
  9. prison house
  10. prison houses
  11. prison justice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prison guard (page history and authors); prison guard (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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