Guardroom
//ˈɡɑɹdˌɹum// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 2 a room used by soldiers on guard wordnet
- 3 A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept.
- 4 a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From guard + room.
Related phrases
More for "guardroom"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.