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A warden is a person who has been entrusted with the oversight of something important to the community, such as a college, church, prison, wild game or firefighting. It may also refer to:
Occupations, ranks and roles
- Prison warden, the chief administrative official of a prison
- Warden (college), head of some university colleges and academic institutions in the United Kingdom and Australia
- Warden of the Mint, historical highest-ranking officer of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom
- Warden, rank of seniority within a City of London livery company
- Churchwarden, a lay officer in an Anglican or Episcopal church
- Firefighting, a fire warden is a person designated to aid firefighters at a building or community level
- Game warden, an officer empowered to enforce the hunting and trapping laws of a jurisdiction
- Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom, precautions that helped protect British citizens during World War II air raids, enforced by ARP wardens
- Royal forest, the chief royal official of the royal forest was the warden
- Street warden, an officer aiding police at a community level
- Warden, an officer in a Knights of Columbus council
- Masonic lodge officers, ruling members in a Masonic Lodge, one position is that of warden
- County warden, the head of county governments in Ontario and Nova Scotia, similar to mayors in cities
- Resident assistant, may be referred to as a warden at some educational institutions
- Park ranger, also called a park warden or forest ranger, a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands
- Parking enforcement officer, also called a traffic warden or parking inspector, an officer who issues tickets for parking violations
Places
- Warden (TTC), a subway station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Warden Avenue, a major north-south road in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
- Warden, Free State, South Africa, a town in central South Africa in the Free State province
- Warden, Kent, England, a small holiday village in South East England, on the northeast coast of the Isle of Sheppey
- Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, an East of England village and civil parish, just west of Biggleswade
- Warden, Northumberland, England, a North East England village on the River Tyne
- Warden, Washington, United States, a small city in Grant County in central Washington
- Warden, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Raleigh County in southern West Virginia
- Warden, Quebec, Canada, a village that is part of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, in Montérégie administrative area
- Wardon Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, near Old Warden, founded around 1135
People
- Henry Douglas Warden, British resident of South Africa, founder of Bloemfontein
- Jack Warden (1920–2006), American character actor
- John A. Warden III (born 1943), colonel in the United States Air Force
Other
- Churchwarden pipe, a tobacco pipe with a long stem, history dates to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century
- Warden message, an important message from the United States State Department about safety or travel information for U.S. citizens abroad
- Warden pear, any one of a number of pear varieties that do not truly ripen and must be cooked to be edible
- Warden (software), a video game cheating prevention system used by Blizzard Entertainment
See also
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