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warder¹

Sounds like water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”).

noun warders

  1. A guard, especially in a prison. Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I. But hath thy portion wrought so happily? Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep, I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
  2. One who or that which wards or repels. The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.

warder²

Sounds like water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above.

noun warders

  1. archaic A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25, When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind, Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;

Warder³

Where it comes from

Habitational surname, from the village of Wardour, Wiltshire, named with Old English weard (“guard”) + ōra (“bank, slope”).

proper noun Warders

  1. A surname from Old English.

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noun guard

Portuguêsguarda
DeutschWärter, Gefängniswärter, Wächter
Italianocarceriere, secondino, guardiano, custode, sorvegliante

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@misc{warder_2026,
  title = {warder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/warder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}