GUARDHOUSES Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

guardhouses

noun

plural of guardhouse

as in hulks

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Noun

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of hulks

Noun

Framed in iron, this glass structure is said to be one of the world’s most elegant glasshouses.

— Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Start at the outdoor garden to snap photos in front of bright yellow and orange mums, ornamental green cabbages, and a towering pumpkin tree, then go inside to see the historic glasshouses.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025

Definition of glasshouses

Noun

In response to Stewart’s presentation, several alderpersons expressed their appreciation of local law enforcement and the work done to facilitate emergency response efforts across all nine wards.

— Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
In wards 6 and 7, Dave Tamayo and Heidi Sanborn, respectively, are running unopposed.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of wards

Noun

In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.

— Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.

— Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026

Definition of tanks

Noun

By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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