warder

See also: wårder

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

warder (plural warders)

  1. A guard, especially in a prison.
    • 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,
      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, Walter Scott, Marmion, Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne, Canto I, stanza 2, p. 24,
      Above the gloomy portal arch,
      Timing his footsteps to a march,
      The warder kept his guard;
    • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368th Night, p. 26,
      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, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,
      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,
      When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,
      Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,
      Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
    • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, London: Tho. Lownds, Chapter 3, p. 91,
      If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.

Translations

Anagrams

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 Use the gerund of avoir followed by the 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 Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the 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 Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— warde — wardons wardez —

Picard

Etymology

From Old French warder.

Verb

warder

  1. to keep

Conjugation

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