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Warden vs Gatekeeper - What's the difference?

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Warden is a related term of gatekeeper.


As a proper noun warden

is .

As a noun gatekeeper is

a person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.

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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    gatekeeper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate
  • A person or group who controls access to something or somebody
  • A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus , of the Nymphalidae family.