guardhouse
Americannoun
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guardhouses
plural
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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.
noun
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Origin of guardhouse
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He said their occupation of the guardhouse would have sufficed in causing disruption and the damage they caused was "gratuitous" and for "performance purposes only".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
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
But on a previous trip, I had hiked to the ragged stone remains of a sugar mill, overseer’s residence and a guardhouse, much of it overgrown by thorny bushes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2021
I think back to the moment in the jungle when Ma pointed her cane at the guardhouse.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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
We pulled out of the development and headed north, past the gates and guardhouses, past the high-tension wires and the osprey nests, toward the Lake Windsor campus.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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