guardroom /ˈɡɑɹdˌɹum/ noun2 •A room used by soldiers when on guard.There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers. — 1980 •A jail cell in which military prisoners are kept. formsguardrooms