Word Meanings - GUARDIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,

Additional info about word: GUARDIAN

One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and the mother of the child. Blockstone. Guardian ad litem , a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district. (more info) 1. One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GUARDIAN)

• Sentinel
• Watch
• guardian
• guard
• keeper
• warden
• sentry
• watchman
• patrol
• vedette
• Tutor
• Guardian
• governor
• instructor
• teacher
• preceptor
• professor
• master
• savant

Related words: (words related to GUARDIAN)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• VEDETTE
  A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette. (more info) by vedere to see, L. videre), from It. veglia watch, L. vigilia. See
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• SENTINEL
  A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• TUTOR
  One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically: -- A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman. One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. A private
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• TUTORISM
  Tutorship.
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.