GUARDHOUSE Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

guardhouse

noun

Definition of guardhouse

as in ward

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Recent Examples of guardhouse There's also a 5,000-square-foot guesthouse, a caretaker house and a guardhouse offered on the property. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 There’s also a 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, a two-bedroom guardhouse, and a caretaker property on the estate. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026 The former homes of Navy officers and a former guardhouse stretching across seven acres along Rosecrans Street will be revamped into an event space, extensive gardens and four restaurant and bar projects. — Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026 The former guardhouse is expected to be turned into a standalone vintage cocktail lounge. — Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for guardhouse

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Noun

The contest covers the 25th ward in the city’s Westville section, which is the highest single voting district in all of New Haven.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
Morton was born in the industrial city of Nottingham in 1977 and almost immediately became a ward of the court.

— Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of ward

Noun

But the almost cab-forward glasshouse perhaps calls to mind the Lotus Etna concept, with some Ferrari F90 (a one-off for the Sultan of Brunei) here and there, too.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026
To the left is a relaxed deck for post-dip chilling; to the right is the beautifully restrained restaurant, partly enclosed in a glasshouse with an undulating canopy roof.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026

Definition of glasshouse

Noun

Witherspoon’s Bradley Jackson ends up in a gulag in Belarus and Alex Levy, played by Aniston was pushed out of the company by Marion Cotillard’s Celine Dumont.

— Peter White, Deadline, 23 July 2026
During that period, more than one million Kazakhs died in famine, while roughly two million people were imprisoned or deported to gulags on politically motivated charges.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026

Definition of gulag

Noun

Hunt and her team eventually traced the genetic changes to a new cleaning method eroding the polycarbonate cages that housed the animals.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The bike arrives fully equipped, with Tektro hydraulic disc brakes, integrated lights, full fenders, a rear cargo rack, and a bottle-cage mount.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of cage

Noun

Shortly after their meeting, Maxwell was moved from a low-security federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of prison camp

Noun

Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.

— Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of labor camp

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