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A soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
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guardsman
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'
Wikipedia
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Guardsman was the name of a fictional supervillain / superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The name was later applied to a small squad of agents. They wear suits of power armor while working security at the Vault . The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guardsman \Guards"man\, n.; pl. Guardsmen . One who guards; a guard. A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Swinging his power sword and shouting to guardsmen, the Inquisitor pounded after the fugitive alien. ▪ The guardsmen in saurian leather and goggles, who manned this last of many checkpoints, stiffened. ▪ The Inquisitor was advancing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person, especially a soldier, who is on guard. 2 (context US English) A member of the National Guard. 3 (context British English) A member of a Guards regiment.
Usage examples of guardsman.
The two guardsmen there did not know me, and while they greeted me affably enough, they asked no questions.
Real Compaflia Irlandesa low ered the corpse into the deep grave, then Hogan, Sharpe and Harper took off their hats as ather Sarsfield said the prayers in Latin and afterwards spoke in English to the twenty guardsmen.
Run away quickly to Blanche Parry or if you cannot reach her to Dunstan or Ladbroke or your guardsmen.
Handsel Van Deef hired them as guardsmen on Thursday and instructed them to report here this morning.
Marn in force at eleven this morning, a party of myself, two female retriever operators, two retrievers and three armed guardsmen Van Deef hired to protect us.
Your sacs contained your usual result of a night on Marn: that is, spermatozoa of Alfred, Van Deef and the three guardsmen.
Saturday, 18870730:1700 The guardsmen in the Chatterford car fell silent when Van Deef boarded and walked to the end facing the seated men.
One of the guardsmen stooped to retrieve the fallen pistol and threw it underhanded up to Van Deef, who examined it curiously.
Alfred joined Van Deef and his guardsmen in quickly unloading the two wagons, after driving them well away from the rails.
They had grown up together, had become Guardsmen together, and had even endured the hell of Dring together.
Shamil and Enam straightened from laying the fifth guardsman, bound and gagged with strips torn from his own sopping-wet tunic, in a row with the four who were still unconscious.
Almost ten thousand regular army troops and federalized National Guardsmen were in Oxford or the immediate vicinity by midday.
THE MAGNET SWITCH The guardsmen paid not the slightest attention to their wards, for the red men could not move over two feet from the great rings to which they were padlocked, though each had seized a weapon upon which he had been engaged when I entered the room, and stood ready to join me could they have but done so.
As the fiacre passed them, and the Van guardsmen caught sight of the girls within, whistles and wolf howls and appreciative lip-smackings arose.
Guardsmen announced that Julanya Fote and Keraille Surtovni had returned.