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Warder vs Bodyguard - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between warder and bodyguard

is that warder is a guard, especially in a prison while bodyguard is a person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

As a verb bodyguard is

to act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.

warder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A guard, especially in a prison.
  • (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
  • * 1595 , Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars
    • When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, / Casts down his warder to arrest them there.
  • * William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act 1, Scene 3
    • Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

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    bodyguard

    English

    Noun

  • A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively , to protect.
  • * 2005 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘Burned Out’, Slate , Mar 7 2005:
    • The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.