Meaning

1 senses
  1. One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.

    Gefängniswärter, Gefängniswärterin, Gefängnisaufseher

    тюре́мщикtjurémščik, тюре́мщицаtjurémščica, тюре́мный надзира́тельtjurémnyj nadzirátelʹ

More definitions
  • someone who guards prisoners

Examples

5 sentences
  1. You don't have to be nice to your jailer.

  2. Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

    ruЕдинообразие - тюремщик свободы и враг роста. — odexed

    deKonformismus ist der Kerkermeister der Freiheit und der Widersacher des Wachstums. — BraveSentry

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  3. Tom is a jailer.

  4. Where is the jailer?

  5. "What do you do?" "I'm a corrections officer." "A what? Like in a school?" "No, I mean I'm a jailer."

Translations

8 languages
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By meaning 1
one who guards inmates:
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By meaning 1
one who guards inmates:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English gayoler, gayler, jayler, from Old French jaiolier, gaiolier,

Inherited from Middle English gayoler, gayler, jayler, from Old French jaiolier, gaiolier, from jaiole. By surface analysis, jail + -er.

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