guardhouse
Americannoun
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a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
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a building used for the temporary detention of military prisoners.
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A property of such high value—with its separate 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, caretaker house, two-bedroom guardhouse, 12-car garage, and parking for 80 vehicles—has a considerably lower buyer pool, because most people simply cannot afford it.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026
Whistling Cay has a guardhouse that colonial-era officials used to scan waters for slaves escaping from St. John to the nearby island of Tortola.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
It was built in 1877 in the form of a panopticon, giving a central guardhouse a clear view to all corners of the "wheel".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2023
Mississippi Valley State University locked down after a threat was received through its guardhouse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
We’d come to a guardhouse in the middle of the street.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
A barbed-wire security fence ringed the perimeter, and guardhouses were stationed at the entrances.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
During the years Dietz worked with De Becker, he visited the homes of De Becker’s clients, touring guardhouses and safe rooms De Becker’s team had installed.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019
By the 18th century, when more conservative Bourbons succeeded to the Spanish throne, these private rooms became guardhouses for masterpieces they would have been happy to burn.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
There were more guardhouses at regular intervals, and then, across the ridge, the remains of stone walls and defensive ditches.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2016
Ahead of us was a compound flanked by a number of guardhouses.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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