different between vigilante vs warder

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?d???lænti/, /v?d???l??nte?/

Noun

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• vigilantism
• digilante

Translations

Anagrams

• genitival

French

Adjective

vigilante

1. feminine singular of vigilant

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Verb

vigilante

1. present participle of vigilare

Adjective

vigilante (plural vigilanti)

1. vigilant, watchful, alert

   Synonyms: vigile, attento

Related terms

• vigilanza
• vigilare

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilanti)

1. security guard
2. vigilante

Latin

Participle

vigilante

1. ablative masculine singular of vigil?ns
2. ablative feminine singular of vigil?ns
3. ablative neuter singular of vigil?ns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes, comparable)

1. vigilant; watchful; observant (alert and paying close attention)

Derived terms

• vigilantemente

Related terms

• vigilância
• vigilar

Noun

vigilante m, f (plural vigilantes)

1. a person whose job is to watch over something

Further reading

• “vigilante” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. watchful, alert, wakeful

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes)

1. guard, watchman

   Synonym: guarda

Derived terms

Related terms

• vigilancia
• vigilar

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bid?i?lante/

Noun

vigilante

1. vigilante
2. a person suspected to be involved in extrajudicial killings in the drug war in the Philippines from 2016.

Related terms

• salvage

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

warder (plural warders)

1. A guard, especially in a prison.
   • 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.

     But hath thy portion wrought so happily?

     Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,

     I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368^th Night, p. 26,^[2]

     So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,

     Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.

2. (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,^[3]

     When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,

     Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,^[4]

     Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, London: Tho. Lownds, Chapter 3, p. 91,^[5]

     If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.

Translations

Anagrams

• drawer, redraw, reward, warred

Old French

Verb

warder

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Picard

Etymology

From Old French warder.

Verb

warder

1. to keep

Conjugation