单词 | guardsman |
释义 | guardsmann. 1. A man who acts as a guard; a member of a guard. Also figurative, a guardian (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > protector or defender shield971 warranta1225 warden?c1225 forhillera1300 inshieldera1300 shieldera1300 weryera1325 hilera1340 witier1340 protectorc1390 guard1412 safeguardera1535 fencec1540 safekeeper1561 parens patriae1764 guardsmana1854 fortifier1878 minder1896 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard warda680 wakemanc1175 wardena1250 watchc1380 watchmana1400 outwatch1488 warderc1540 sentinel1579 perdu1639 sentry1650 lookout1662 security man1662 guardman1756 excubitor1775 cockatoo1827 guardsmana1854 dog1870 a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets in Ess. (1857) i. 357 So far as literature is concerned, we are by our calling guardsmen of English rights and English merits. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. x. 306 Com'st then to find One of the guardsmen or a comrade? 1877 G. Fraser Wigtown 54 (E.D.D.) It was the duty of the guardsman to fire his gun, and thus alarm the inhabitants. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. x. xlvii. 425 The necessity of his being coupled to guardsman after guardsman, day after day and night after night. 2. A soldier (usually, an officer) of the guards or household troops of the English army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > guardsman guardman1815 guardsman1816 guardee1904 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 147 A horse-guardsman..was left upon the ground..wounded in a charge. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxxxviii. 99 There was Jack Jargon the gigantic guardsman. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. xiv. 182 A young guardsman who was then a guest at the Castle, and who had been in garrison in Ireland. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 68 Tannhäuser, one suspects, was a knight of ill-furnished imagination, hardly of larger discourse than a heavy Guardsman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1816 |
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