guardroom

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US/ˈɡɑɹdˌɹum/

noun

A room used by soldiers when on guard.

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Meanings

nounguardroom (plural guardrooms)

plural guardrooms

  1. A room used by soldiers when on guard.

    There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132
  2. A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
jail cell

Origin

From guard + room.

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Translations

Bulgarian караулка, караулница
  • караулка (karaulka)room for guards
  • караулница (karaulnica)room for guards
Cite this entry
APA

guardroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guardroom

MLA

“guardroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guardroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guardroom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guardroom.

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