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wardens

wardens is the plural of warden.

Meaning of warden

Noun (1)

warden (plural wardens)

  1. (archaic, literary) A guard or watchman.
    • He called to the wardens on the outside battlements.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter IV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst...
  2. A chief administrative officer of a prison.
    • The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]1934, Nathanael West, “Chapter 7”, in A Cool Million
  3. An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.
  4. A governing official in various institutions
    • the warden of a college

Noun (2)

warden (plural wardens)

  1. A variety of pear.
    • Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t:c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene...

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What is wardens the plural of?
Wardens is the plural of warden.

Words near wardens in the dictionary

  1. wardenesses
  2. wardening
  3. wardenless
  4. wardenries
  5. wardenry
  6. wardens
  7. wardenship
  8. wardenships
  9. warder
  10. warderess
  11. warderesses

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