Ward vs. Warden — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ward and Warden
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Ward
A room in a hospital usually holding six or more patients.
Warden
The chief administrative official of a prison.
Ward
A division in a hospital for the care of a particular group of patients
A maternity ward.
Warden
An official charged with the enforcement of certain laws and regulations
An air raid warden.
Ward
A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.
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Warden
The chief executive official in charge of a port or market.
Ward
A district of some English and Scottish counties corresponding roughly to the hundred or the wapentake.
Warden
Any of various crown officers having administrative duties.
Ward
One of the divisions of a penal institution, such as a prison.
Warden
One of the governing officials of certain colleges, schools, guilds, or hospitals; a trustee.
Ward
An open court or area of a castle or fortification enclosed by walls.
Warden
The chief executive of a borough in certain states.
Ward
(Law) A minor or a person deemed legally incompetent.
Warden
A churchwarden.
Ward
A person under the protection or care of another.
Warden
A guard or watchman.
Ward
The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship.
Warden
A chief administrative officer of a prison.
Ward
The act of keeping watch or being a lookout.
Warden
An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden
Ward
The state of being under guard; custody.
Warden
A governing official in various institutions
The warden of a college
Ward
A defensive movement or attitude, especially in fencing; a guard.
Warden
A variety of pear.
Ward
The projecting ridge of a lock or keyhole that prevents the turning or insertion of a key other than the proper one.
Warden
To carry out the duties of a warden.
Ward
The notch cut into a key that corresponds to such a ridge.
Warden
A keeper; a guardian; a watchman.
He called to the warden on the . . . battlements.
Ward
To guard; protect.
Warden
An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison.
Ward
A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
Warden
A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically (Eccl.), a churchwarden.
Ward
Protection, defence.
Warden
A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting.
I would have had him roasted like a warden.
Ward
(obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
Warden
The chief official in charge of a prison
Ward
The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance keep ward etc.}}
Ward
Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
Ward
An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
Ward
Land tenure through military service.
Ward
(fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
Ward
A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
Ward
An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
Ward
A section or subdivision of a prison.
Ward
An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.
Ward
(UK) A division of a forest.
Ward
(Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
Ward
A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
Ward
A person under guardianship.
Ward
A minor looked after by a guardian.
After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.
Ward
(obsolete) An underage orphan.
Ward
An object used for guarding.
Ward
The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
Ward
(transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
Ward
(transitive) To defend, to protect.
Ward
(transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches off}}
Ward
(intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
Ward
(intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Ward
One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
For the best ward of mine honor.
The assieged castle's wardTheir steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
For want of other ward,He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.
Ward
The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.
I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward.
It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
Ward
A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
Ward
One who, or that which, is guarded.
Ward
A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
Ward
A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
The lock is made . . . more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
Ward
A division of a county.
Ward
A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,Dealing an equal share to every ward.
Ward
A division of a forest.
Ward
A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
Ward
To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wightTo ward the same.
Ward
To defend; to protect.
Tell him it was a hand that warded himFrom thousand dangers.
Ward
To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
Ward
To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; - usually followed by off.
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
Ward
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
Ward
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back.
Ward
A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
Ward
A district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
Ward
Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care;
They put her in a 4-bed ward
Ward
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
Ward
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)
Ward
A division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
Ward
Watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;
Guard my possessions while I'm away
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