guardian

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɑɹ.di.ən/
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/ˈɡɑɹ.di.ən/ · /ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/ · /ˈɡɑɹ.din/(US)

Definition of guardian

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
    “Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]”
    “I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.”
    “As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.”
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noun

  1. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
    “Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]”
    “I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.”
    “As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.”
  2. A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
  3. A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
  4. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
  5. A major or final enemy; boss.
    “Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.”
    “'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'”
  6. (US)A servicemember of the United States Space Force.

name

  1. A British daily national newspaper.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

Anagrams of guardian

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