warden
IPA: wˈɔrdʌn
noun
- (archaic or literary) A guard or watchman.
- A chief administrative officer of a prison.
- An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.
- A governing official in various institutions
- A variety of pear.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a warden.
- A village and civil parish in south Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9166).
verb
- To carry out the duties of a warden.
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Examples of "warden" in Sentences
- The chief royal official was the Warden.
- The warden manages all the gardening work.
- Curry became the first Warden of the Prison.
- Ben Curry is the current Warden of the prison.
- The house of the warden hosts period exhibitions.
- They see the Warden's body plummet to the ground.
- He often acts as a bespectacled policeman or traffic warden.
- Construction of the house of the forest warden was completed in 1913.
- In some places, the Undersheriff is the prison warden of the county jail.
- As a veteran game warden watches, the seamy side of the Grand Teton National Park elk hunt unfolds.