Definitions for wardress

wardress ward·ress

Spelling: [wawr-dris]
IPA: /ˈwɔr drɪs/

Wardress is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in wardress (aderrssw).

Definitions for wardress

noun

  1. a woman who is a warder.

Origin of wardress

First recorded in 1815-25; ward(e)r1 + -ess

Examples for wardress

By and by a wardress came to the door and threw me a blanket.

It seemed an endless time before my cell door was opened by a wardress, who ordered me to follow her.

At least I gathered as much from the alarmed expression of the wardress who accompanied him.

A wardress ran up to us, saying: "I shall listen to everything you say."

He asked where were the keys, and as I said in the pocket of the wardress, who slept within, he sent me there to get them.

She frankly behaved as a wardress in a prison, and Winifred as frankly accepted the rôle of prisoner.

I suppose his mother went around in a black alpaca and wore her hair like a wardress in a jail.

Through more corridors they passed till the wardress stopped just short of an open door and rang a bell.

Going out into the corridor, she attempted to press a sovereign into the wardress's hard palm.

A request to the wardress for a glass of water was instantly complied with, and Jeanne then washed the fatal poison down.

Word Value for wardress
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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