Warden vs Gaoler - What's the difference?
warden | gaoler |
(archaic, or, literary) A guard or watchman.
* Sir Walter Scott
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
(archaic, slang) A variety of pear, thought to be Black Worcester or Parkinson's Warden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
As a proper noun warden
is .As a noun gaoler is
(british).warden
English
Noun
(en noun)- He called to the warden on the battlements.
- the warden of a college
- I would have had him roasted like a warden .
- I must have saffron the colour of warden pies.
