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n. A person whose responsibility was to defend a particular building during an air raid, ensure the blackout was complete, and to assist civilians to an air-raid shelter
Usage examples of "air-raid warden".
The motto had brought him into the ambulance service when his air-raid warden's job came to an end.
It had turned him into an air-raid warden when he was a medically rejected army recruit in the third year of the war.
But when Greff the air-raid warden was no longer there to remonstrate with him, Maria insisted that he leave the props in place.
A rifle-toting air-raid warden in a British-style tin hat and a Civil Defense armband nodded to Jens as he walked past.
He flinched at the crack of the bat, and you could see him craning his neck and scanning that high sky like an air-raid warden expecting enemy bombers.
It was early in the picture, and there was the three-dimensional illusion of an astonished and excited Rod Taylor, as the time traveler, talking excitedly to an elderly and half-daft Alan Young in his later incarnation as an air-raid warden, Young finally pulling away as the sirens of London screamed their last alert.