jailer

Noun

Meaning

The keeper of a jail or prison.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

screw turnkey guard warden gaoler jailor prison guard warder corrections officer guardian ranger sentry bolt guardsman official

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Antonyms

liberator capture prisoner captive attacker lag

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Hypernyms

keeper lawman peace officer law officer

Related terms

jailership jaileress jailering

Phrases with the word

female jailer

Anagrams

rejail

Examples

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy

Son of a son, son of a son, son of a son of a sailor. Son of a gun; load the last ton, One step ahead of the jailer. Jimmy Buffett

It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion and generosity and truth. Barack Obama

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. Dorothy Rowe

Close letter words and terms

jaildom jailed jailee jaileress jailering jailership