Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Source: tatoeba (706980)
Jailer
//ˈd͡ʒeɪlə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "jailer" (48 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δεσμοφύλαξ noun (one who guards inmates)
Catalan
1 entries- escarceller noun (one who guards inmates)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 獄卒 /狱卒 noun (one who guards inmates)
- 獄吏 /狱吏 noun (one who guards inmates)
- 獄警 /狱警 noun (one who guards inmates)
Czech
2 entries- věznitel noun (one who guards inmates)
- žalářník noun (one who guards inmates)
Dutch
2 entries- cipier noun (one who guards inmates)
- gevangenbewaarder noun (one who guards inmates)
Finnish
1 entries- vanginvartija noun (one who guards inmates)
French
3 entries- geôlier noun (one who guards inmates)
- geôlière noun (one who guards inmates)
- gâfe noun (one who guards inmates)
Georgian
1 entries- ციხის ზედამხედველი noun (one who guards inmates)
German
4 entries- Gefangenenwärter noun (one who guards inmates)
- Gefangenenwärterin noun (one who guards inmates)
- Gefängnisaufseher noun (one who guards inmates)
- Gefängnisaufseherin noun (one who guards inmates)
Greek
1 entries- δεσμοφύλακας noun (one who guards inmates)
Indonesian
2 entries- sipir noun (one who guards inmates)
- sipir penjara noun (one who guards inmates)
Irish
1 entries- séiléir noun (one who guards inmates)
Italian
4 entries- aguzzina noun (one who guards inmates)
- aguzzino noun (one who guards inmates)
- carceriera noun (one who guards inmates)
- carceriere noun (one who guards inmates)
Japanese
2 entries- 獄吏 noun (one who guards inmates)
- 看守 noun (one who guards inmates)
Korean
2 entries- 간수 noun (one who guards inmates)
- 교도관 noun (one who guards inmates)
Latin
2 entries- carcerārius noun (one who guards inmates)
- custōs noun (one who guards inmates)
Macedonian
1 entries- темничар noun (one who guards inmates)
Mi'kmaq
1 entries- lapseloon noojodum noun (one who guards inmates)
Middle English
1 entries- gayoler noun (one who guards inmates)
Māori
1 entries- kaitiaki herehere noun (one who guards inmates)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- زندانجی noun (one who guards inmates)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- цемнїцар noun (one who guards inmates)
Polish
2 entries- strażniczka więzienna noun (one who guards inmates)
- strażnik więzienny noun (one who guards inmates)
Portuguese
2 entries- carcereira noun (one who guards inmates)
- carcereiro noun (one who guards inmates)
Romanian
2 entries- gardian noun (one who guards inmates)
- temnicer noun (one who guards inmates)
Russian
4 entries- тюре́мная надзира́тельница noun (one who guards inmates)
- тюре́мный надзира́тель noun (one who guards inmates)
- тюре́мщик noun (one who guards inmates)
- тюре́мщица noun (one who guards inmates)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- тамничар noun (one who guards inmates)
Slovak
1 entries- žalárnik noun (one who guards inmates)
Spanish
4 entries- carcelera noun (one who guards inmates)
- carcelero noun (one who guards inmates)
- guardacárcel noun (one who guards inmates)
- guardiacárcel noun (one who guards inmates)
Swedish
2 entries- fångvaktare noun (one who guards inmates)
- kriminalvårdare noun (one who guards inmates)
Turkish
2 entries- gardiyan noun (one who guards inmates)
- zindancı noun (one who guards inmates)
Welsh
1 entries- gwarcheidwad noun (one who guards inmates)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
You don't have to be nice to your jailer.
Source: tatoeba (13162227)
"What do you do?" "I'm a corrections officer." "A what? Like in a school?" "No, I mean I'm a jailer."
Source: tatoeba (13162239)
Sometimes some of the ejected ministers preached to them privately, and now and then the jailer allowed Mr. H. to go out in the night to preach to them, and administer the Lord's Supper.
Source: wiktionary
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