Warden vs Mayor - What's the difference?
warden | mayor |
(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
The leader of a city, or a municipality, sometimes just a figurehead and sometimes a powerful position. In some countries, the mayor is elected by the citizens or by the city council.
* 2003 , Mary Ruwart, Healing our world in an age of aggression - Page 374
* 2011 , Michael Ryan, The Heart's Location, p 32
By restriction, a male municipal leader
(historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France
As nouns the difference between warden and mayor
is that warden is a guard or watchman while mayor is the leader of a city, or a municipality, sometimes just a figurehead and sometimes a powerful position. In some countries, the mayor is elected by the citizens or by the city council.As proper nouns the difference between warden and mayor
is that warden is {{surname|lang=en} while Mayor is {{surname|from=Anglo-Norman}.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.
See also
* *Anagrams
* * *mayor
English
Alternative forms
* mayour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!
- To assist him in his task Paul was joined by Ron Adams, who had been a three-term Libertarian mayor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
