GUARDHOUSES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

guardhouses

noun

plural of guardhouse

as in hulks

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Noun

Framed in iron, this glass structure is said to be one of the world’s most elegant glasshouses.

— Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Start at the outdoor garden to snap photos in front of bright yellow and orange mums, ornamental green cabbages, and a towering pumpkin tree, then go inside to see the historic glasshouses.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025

Definition of glasshouses

Noun

Active cooling should come later, focused on the places that need it most, such as schools, hospital wards, and care homes.

— Sabrina Weiss, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
The next day, a judge ruled that Robby and Michael should be considered wards of the state and sent them to an orphanage.

— Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

Definition of wards

Noun

In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

Noun

Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.

— Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026

Definition of concentration camps

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