different between warden vs warren

English

Etymology

From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, Old Northern French wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wart?n (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??d?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w??d?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n

Noun

warden (plural wardens)

1. (archaic or literary) A guard or watchman.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 4th American edition, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1823, Volume 2, Chapter 4,^[1]

     He called to the wardens on the outside battlements. [The original (UK) editions read warders rather than wardens.]

2. A chief administrative officer of a prison.
   • 1934, Nathanael West, A Cool Million, Chapter 7,^[2]

     The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]

3. An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden
4. A governing official in various institutions

   the warden of a college

5. A variety of pear.
   • c. 1608, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Cupid’s Revenge, Act II, Scene 1,^[3]

     Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t:

   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[4]

     I must have saffron to colour the warden pies;

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Gardens” in Essays, London: Hanna Barret, p. 269,^[5]

     In September, come Grapes; Apples; Poppies of all colours; Peaches; Melo-Cotones; Nectarines; Cornelians; Wardens; Quinces.

   • 1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, p. 30,^[6]

     Wardens, a name given to pears which never melt, are long keeping, and used for cooking only. The name comes from the Cistercian Abbey of Warden in Beds. Parkinson’s Warden is now Black Worcester. There are Spanish, White and Red Wardens.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

warden (third-person singular simple present wardens, present participle wardening, simple past and past participle wardened)

1. To carry out the duties of a warden.

See also

• Warden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Warden in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Wander, drawne, wander, warned

English

Etymology

From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”), probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjan? (“ward off, defend against”); compare also Old French warir, guarir, a borrowing from this Germanic root). Alternatively from Gaulish *warrenn? (“enclosed area”), from *warros (“stick, post”), Proto-Celtic *warr? (“post, prop”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

warren (plural warrens)

1. The system of burrows where rabbits live.
2. (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
3. (archaic) The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.
4. A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
5. (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.

Derived terms

• Dawlish Warren
• free warren
• rabbit warren
• warrener

Translations

References

• warren at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Warner, warner

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?r?n

Noun

warren

1. Plural form of war

Middle English

Verb

warren

1. Alternative form of werren