Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prison guard

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: pris-on -guard
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"The Telfaire Prisonguard towers rise miragelike in the swampy sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks."

Etymology

From prison + guard.

Inflected Forms

prison guards (plural) prisonguard (alternative)

Synonyms

corrections officer jailer turnkey warder jailor screw cop gaoler

Questions

What does prison guard mean?: An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
Where does prison guard come from?: From prison + guard.

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