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warden | defense |

As a proper noun warden

is .

As a noun defense is

defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose).

warden

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic, or, literary) A guard or watchman.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • He called to the warden on the battlements.
  • A chief administrative officer of a prison
  • An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air raid warden
  • A governing official in various institutions
  • the warden of a college
  • (archaic, slang) A variety of pear, thought to be Black Worcester or Parkinson's Warden.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • I would have had him roasted like a warden .
  • * Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
  • I must have saffron the colour of warden pies.

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    defense

    English

    Alternative forms

    * defence (British)

    Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
  • Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
  • # A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • # The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • An argument in support or justification of something.
  • Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
  • Department of Defense
  • Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • Severe defenses against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * offense

    Derived terms

    * antidefense * ecodefense * Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensiveness * defensive scheme * defensive system