prison guard

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   someone who guards prisoners

   Synonymsjailerjailorgaolerscrewturnkey

   Broaderlawmankeeper

Questions about prison guard

What does prison guard mean?

prison guard means "someone who guards prisoners".

What is another word for prison guard?

Close synonyms include jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prison guard a common word?

prison guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.