Warden
['wɔːd(ə)n] or ['wɔrdn]
Definition
(n.) A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
(n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
(n.) A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
(n.) A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Keeper, guardian, warder, custodian, curator, superintendent.
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Definition
n. a kind of pear.—Warden pie a pie made of warden pears.
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Examples
- In a few years, when he grew stouter, he would be made a warden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Dr. Wilkns, the brother-in-law of Cromwell, who is regarded by some as the founder of the Royal Society, remove d to Oxford, as Warden of Wadham, in 1649. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It's not the warden's fault, you know, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He caught Fangs strolling in the forest, and said he chased the deer contrary to his master's right, as warden of the walk. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Fraulein handed the coffee, everybody smoked cigarettes, or else long warden pipes of white clay, of which a sheaf was provided. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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