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

These immigrants, mostly undocumented, are blamed for rampant crime, taking jobs and overrunning hospital wards and places in government schools.

— Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
Each of Midpen’s seven directors serve four-year terms on the board, representing the residents of a geographic area, or ward, within Midpen’s boundaries.

— Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 26 July 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

After taking some pictures with Maddox and signing his shirt, Caminero took some cuts in the cage and then came back to meet Grady.

— John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
The aim in the cage is to knock the other guy’s block off, and then to pile on to the point of submission with a flurry of punches.

— Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of cage

Noun

Fire crews responded as a precaution after the Amazon truck’s methane tank was compromised, requiring it to be safely offloaded before the vehicle could be moved, according to CHP logs.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
If the valve shut off properly, the tank will empty and won’t refill.

— Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 24 July 2026

Definition of tank

Noun

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
Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 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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