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warden
1. Archaic any of various public officials, esp one responsible for the enforcement of certain regulations
2. Chiefly US and Canadian the chief officer in charge of a prison
3. Brit the principal or president of any of various universities or colleges
4. See churchwarden
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Ruth Warden got up from her desk and, having put on her hat, emerged into the outer office where M.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of them.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Warden," he added to that official, as the Convict slunk away, "in appointing you to this position, I was given to understand that your friends could make the Shikane county delegation to the next State convention solid for - for the present Administration.
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