guard – English noun declension

English noun forms of guard

Noun: guard
Singularguard
Pluralguards

Sample Sentences

  • The prison guard unlocked the door of the cell. After completing the repairs, he replaced the sump guard.
  • border guard, prison guard, security guard
  • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The Garda Regulations 1924 required a candidate for appointment as a guard to be able to produce satisfactory references as to his character [2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 139:]
  • The president inspected the guard of honour.
  • Holonym: hilt
  • The motorcycle mechanic removed the damaged chain guard.
  • Another possible way is to go for a lower profile tyre (50 series). This effectively lowers the distance of the tyre wall away from the guard (not by much though and generally, the lower the profile, the wider the tyre so the tyre may stick out more as well). [1996 December 24, Pendles, “Tyres rubbing on guards”, in aus.cars (Usenet):]
  • The reason I'm asking - Whenever I put some weight in the back of the car (say - a passenger or two) the rear tyres can sometimes hit the guards. [1999 November 23, Nathan, “Tyres rubbing on guards”, in aus.cars (Usenet):]
  • I had just bought myself broken headlights, a f**ked up grill, a front guard bent into my front tyre, a leaky radiator and one *SLIGHTLY* bent chassis rail end. I turned the key on my stalled motor and she kicked over first go - if it weren't for the guard bent into the tyre, I could've driven home later if I wanted to. [2001 June 12, Confusement, “Position N or D”, in alt.autos (Usenet):]
  • When an engineer wished to stop a swiftly moving train he had first to whistle to the guard requesting him to apply the hand-brake of the van, and then apply the hand-brake of the engine. Guards did not always hear. [1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 141:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wer-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús
4. Proto-Germanic *warduz
5. Proto-Germanic *-āną
6. Proto-Germanic *wardō
7. Proto-Germanic *-āną
8. Proto-Germanic *wardāną
9. Frankish *wardēnbor.
10. Early Medieval Latin wardō
11. Old French guarder
12. Old French guardebor.
13. Middle English garde
14. English guard
15. From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish. See: Middle English Nouns 'garde', French Nouns 'garde'.

Verbs referencing "guard"

English Nouns warden, Middle English Nouns wardein, Zulu Nouns ugadi.