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# guardroom

«guardroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **A room where soldiers or guards on duty stay, often near…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a guardroom, guardrooms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A room where soldiers or guards on duty stay, often near a gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#m1)

2) A room in a castle or barracks where prisoners are kept for a short time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A castle, army and prison word. In The Wind in the Willows Toad is dragged through the gloomy castle-prison, past guardrooms full of soldiers, to the deepest dungeon. In history lessons on castles, the guardroom is usually beside the gatehouse.

### examples

- The soldiers rested in the guardroom by the castle gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x1)
- Toad was dragged past the guardroom to the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x2)
- The guard went back to the guardroom to warm his hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x3)
- The prisoner was kept in the guardroom overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x4)
- We visited the old guardroom at the Tower of London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x5)
- Keys hung on a hook in the guardroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/#x6)

### note

Countable, one word. Related: guardhouse, gatehouse, barracks. «On guard» means watching; «off guard» means not ready.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «guardroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guardroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.