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custode — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • custodian noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  • gatekeeper noun A person or group that controls who or what gets access to something.
  • guard noun A person whose job is to protect a place, person, or thing.
  • guardian noun Someone who protects or watches over a person or thing.
  • jailer noun A person whose job is to guard prisoners in a jail.
  • warder noun (chiefly British) A prison guard.

Senses

custode is used for these senses in English:

  • custodian A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
  • custos (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a custody of the order.
  • gatekeeper A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
  • guard A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
  • guardian Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
  • jailer One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
  • warder A guard, especially in a prison.

custodian — full definition

  1. noun A person responsible for looking after or protecting something.
  2. noun US: a janitor or cleaner, especially in a school or office building.

gatekeeper — full definition

  1. noun A person or group that controls who or what gets access to something.
  2. noun A person who physically guards or watches over a gate.

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