guardhouse

noun

Definition of guardhousenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardhouse
  1. ward
  2. glasshouse
  3. stalag
  4. gulag
  5. cage
  6. tank
  7. prison camp
  8. labor camp
Noun
  • That same day, Gajdusek’s newest ward, Daniel, arrived from Micronesia.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • However, she was sent off with her second yellow card in stoppage time for stopping a goal-ward shot with her arm.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 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
  • German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
  • To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.
    — ROBERT D. McFADDEN, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
Definition of stalag
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  • 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
  • Dern's 7-year-old daughter peered her head over the barricade from her front row seat and shouted encouragement each time mom got close to her side of the cage.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • For larger varieties of raspberry plants, add a cage, stakes, or other support at planting before the plant’s branches are full of berries.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of cage
Noun
  • Thicker than your average tank but still lightweight enough to layer, sleeveless sweaters are an easy choice for transitional weather.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Imagine a 350-foot-tall orb that can be transformed into virtually anything, from a harvest moon rising over the Strip to a giant snow globe to a tank of undulating jellyfish.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of tank
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  • Navalna is now in a prison camp in a village near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After their meeting, Maxwell was transferred from a low-security correctional facility in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Aug. 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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