guardroom

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guard·room

(gärd′ro͞om′, -ro͝om′)

1. A room used by guards on duty.

2. A room in which military prisoners are confined.

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guardroom

(ˈɡɑːdˌruːm; -ˌrʊm)

1. (Military) a room used by guards

2. (Law) a room in which prisoners are confined under guard

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guard•room

(ˈgɑrdˌrum, -ˌrʊm)

n.

1. a room used by military guards during their period of duty.

2. a room in which military prisoners are kept.

[1755–65]

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Noun	1.	guardroom - a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined jail cell, prison cell, cell - a room where a prisoner is kept
	2.	guardroom - a room used by soldiers on guard room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

Translations

guardina

guardroom

[ˈgɑːdrʊm] N → cuarto m de guardia

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guardroom

[ˈgɑːdˌrʊm] n (Mil) → corpo di guardia

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Before me was a fair-sized chamber that, from its appointments, I knew must have at one time been a guardroom. There were racks for weapons, and slightly raised platforms for the sleeping silks and furs of the warriors, but now its only occupants were two of the therns who had been of the party with Thurid and Matai Shang.

Beyond the therns several doorways opened off the guardroom, and toward the one upon the extreme right Lakor motioned.

Presently they came opposite our station; nor was I surprised to see that the two were Lakor and his companion of the guardroom.

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"Enter the guardroom," said the sergeant; "we will lay your case before the commandant of the post."

The guardroom was filled with citizens and common people, some playing, some drinking, some talking.

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Now, I knew, my troubles would commence in earnest and indeed they were upon me all too soon, for it seemed that the squad had scarcely left the guardroom before one of their number burst in again breathlessly, crying that they had found their four comrades butchered in the antechamber.

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de Treville and the guardroom of the Louvre with the accounts of his love scrapes, after having passed from professional ladies to military ladies, from the lawyer's dame to the baroness, there was question of nothing less with Porthos than a foreign princess, who was enormously fond of him.

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Next came shields; but these I found it easier to steal from the walls of the outer guardroom of the building.

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When I had read your note I did as you had bid, giving Parthak his choice of the harnesses in the guardroom, and later bringing the jewelled short-sword to him; but the minute that I had fulfilled the promise you evidently had made him, my obligation to him ceased.

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That is why we do not see any soldier at this base," the reporter said, adding that "this is the guardroom, which has been abandoned the way it was, with the door left open".

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The model was specially commissioned for the 250th anniversary of the base and is on display at the officers' guardroom.

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Then, in 1950, joined the RAF at the age of 15, where he had his first 'out of body' experience in the guardroom at RAF Gutersloh in Germany.