noun
definition
A station for guards, especially at the entrance of a town, castle, etc.
noun
definition
A prison operated by the military.
Examples of guardhouse in a Sentence
Anyway, he expired two days later in the guardhouse of the citadel of St Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for imagining rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the co-operation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.
When we reached the guardhouse, Shuttlewood and his friends were already there, having taken a short cut.
The small guardhouse where I stood for four hours now, seemed like a steaming room.
Outside the town are two tombs in the form of towers and the tomb of Cyrus himself, a stone house on a high substruction which rises in seven great steps, surrounded by a court with columns; at its side the remains of a guardhouse, in which the officiating Magians lived, are discernible.