From en.wiktionary.org:
[prisonguard]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden .
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1997 |year_published=1998 |author=Gary Indiana |title=Resentment: A
comedy |publisher=Anchor Books |location=New York |isbn=9780385493369
|ol=7440418M |page=170
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4zRXAAAAYAAJ&dq=prisonguard |passage=And
Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican
powers that be, look at the PRISONGUARD beating trial and the Ventura County
sewer fiasco. }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1987 |title=Arctos: Acta philologica fennica |volumes=21-23
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BxUiAQAAIAAJ&q=%22prisonguard%22&dq=%22prisonguard%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DcBAT6qjLu7ZiAL30qSaAQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwADgU
|page=29 |passage=During his services as a praetorian, Caesium Verus was twice
promoted, first to _tubicen_ (trumpeter), then to _optio carceris_ (camp
PRISONGUARD): _ordinatus tubicem item optio at carcarem factus est_. }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2011 |author=Marc Ian Barasc |title=The Compassionate Life: Walking
the Path of Kindness |publisher=Berrett-Koehler |location=San Francisco
|isbn=9781605099019
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=X-xq9e3BKGYC&pg=PT217&dq=prisonguard
|passage=The Telfaire PRISONGUARD towers rise miragelike in the swampy
sunlight like giant mushroom caps on grey concrete stalks. }}
**** Synonyms
- [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Translations
[person working to provide order to in a jail]
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- Vietnamese: [vi]
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