Usually means: Overseer of prison or institution.
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  1. warden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. warden: Merriam-Webster
  3. warden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. warden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. warden: Collins English Dictionary
  6. warden: Vocabulary.com
  7. Warden, warden: Wordnik
  8. warden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Warden, warden: Wiktionary
  10. warden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. warden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. warden: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. warden: Dictionary.com
  14. warden: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. warden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Warden (software), The Warden, Warden (Dungeons & Dragons), Warden (college), Warden (disambiguation), Warden (software), Warden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Warden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. warden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. warden: Rhymezone
  20. Warden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. warden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Warden: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. warden: FreeDictionary.org
  24. warden: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. warden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. warden: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. warden: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. warden: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. warden: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. warden: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. warden: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic or literary) A guard or watchman.
noun:  A chief administrative officer of a prison.
noun:  An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.
noun:  A governing official in various institutions
verb:  To carry out the duties of a warden.
noun:  A variety of pear.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a warden.
noun:  A village and civil parish in south Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9166).

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