warder

See also: wårder and Warder

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

warder (plural warders)

1. A guard, especially in a prison.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV]:

     Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
     But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
     Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
     I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza II, page 24:

     Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368^th Night, p. 26,^[1]

     So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 24, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:

     Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.

2. (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,^[2]

     When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,

     Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3]:

     Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

   • 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter III, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 91:

     If thou doſt not inſtantly comply with theſe juſt demands, he defies thee to ſingle combat to the laſt extremity. And ſo ſaying, the Herald caſt down his warder.

3. One who or that which wards or repels.
   • 1876, The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East, page 79:

     The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.

Translations

guard

• Bulgarian: надзирател (bg) m (nadziratel), тъмничар m (tǎmničar)
• Burmese: ထောင်ကြပ် (my) (htaungkrap)
• Galician: garda (gl) m
• German: Wärter (de) m; Gefängniswärter (de) m; Wächter (de) m
• Hungarian: börtönőr (hu)
• Irish: bairdéir m
• Italian: carceriere (it) m, secondino (it) m, guardiano (it) m, custode (it) m, sorvegliante (it) m
• Portuguese: guarda (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: maor-coimhid m
• Telugu: జైలు అధికారి (te) (jailu adhikāri)

Anagrams

• drawer, redraw, reward, warred

Old French

Verb

warder

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of warder (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		warder			avoir wardé
gerund		en wardant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		wardant
past participle		wardé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	wart	wardes	warde	wardons	wardez	wardent
	imperfect	wardoie, wardeie, wardoe, wardeve	wardoies, wardeies, wardoes, wardeves	wardoit, wardeit, wardot, wardeve	wardiiens, wardiens	wardiiez, wardiez	wardoient, wardeient, wardoent, wardevent
	preterite	wardai	wardas	warda	wardames	wardastes	warderent
	future	warderai	warderas	wardera	warderons	warderoiz, wardereiz, warderez	warderont
	conditional	warderoie, wardereie	warderoies, wardereies	warderoit, wardereit	warderiiens, warderiens	warderiiez, warderiez	warderoient, wardereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	wart	warz	wart	wardons	wardez	wardent
	imperfect	wardasse	wardasses	wardast	wardissons, wardissiens	wardissoiz, wardissez, wardissiez	wardassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	warde	—	wardons	wardez	—

Picard

Etymology

From Old French warder.

Verb

warder

1. to keep

Conjugation

    Conjugation in Picard

infinitive			warder
gerund			wardint
auxiliary			avoèr
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		wardè		wardèe
		plural		wardès		wardèes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ej (j')	tu (t')	i (il)/ale	(n)os	os	is
	present	warde	wardes	warde	wardons	wardez	wardtte
	imperfect	wardoé	wardoés	wardoét	wardoinmes	wardoètes	wardoètte
	future	wardrai wardro	wardros	wardro	wardrons	wardrez	wardront
	conditional	wardroé	wardroés	wardroét	wardroinmes	wardroètes	wardroètte
subjunctive		qu'ej (j')	qu'tu (t')	qu'i (il)/ale	qu'(n)os	qu'os	qu'is
	present	warde	wardes	warde	wardonche	wardèche	wardtte
imperative		—	tu	—	(n)os	os	—
	affirmative		warde		wardons	wardez