guardroom
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdˌrum/
- Jargon
:
cuartel
- The soldiers gathered in the guardroom to prepare for their night shift.
Examples
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The Darksider moved aside, and he made his way through the dim guardroom, followed by an unblinking red-black stare.
Fiction book (2000) -
Relieved at midnight and made my way back to the guardroom.
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The guardroom is just off to your right.
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Down the steps is the passage to the guardroom.
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Across the guardroom is the door to the dungeon and the king.
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Take Mr. Boyd to the guardroom.
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The western guardroom.
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If this castle is attacked, there're always two of us in the guardroom... ...just up those steps, ready to shove you down Jacob's ladder.
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A few twists and turns in the tunnel took them to a narrow stair that emptied into the final guardroom of this section.
Fiction book (1992) -
As soon as she entered the shadow of the keep, she could hear Edmund shouting for the Welsh hostages to be brought up from the basement guardroom.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A small building at an entrance where guards stay and sometimes keep prisoners
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word guardroom is made of guard + room, where guard means 'to watch or protect' and room means 'a space'. So it is a room where soldiers who 'guard' stay while on duty.