Guardian
['gɑːdɪən] or ['ɡɑrdɪən]
Definition
(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Warden, keeper, protector, defender, preserver, guardian angel, tutelary saint.
a. Protecting, tutelary.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Keeper, protector, conservator, custodian, preserver, warder
ANT:Traitor, betrayer, pupil, ward
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a guardian, denotes you will be treated with consideration by your friends. For a young woman to dream that she is being unkindly dealt with by her guardian, foretells that she will have loss and trouble in the future.
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Examples
- Nothing, guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- No, guardian, I returned, fearful of the light that dimly broke upon me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My guardian now came every day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She is very fortunate in her guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But would any of your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? Plato. The Republic.
- So it might, little woman, my guardian assented. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I hope, guardian, said I, that you may not trust too much to my discretion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Very unwell, guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why, get along with you, said she to my guardian, what do you mean? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Have you seen Mr. Woodcourt, this morning, guardian? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Have I not been what I have meant to be since--I brought the answer to your letter, guardian? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Very good, said my guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Oh, guardian, what have I done! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But would any of your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? Plato. The Republic.
- Her guardians, my dear. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Was not the selection of the male guardians determined by differences of this sort? Plato. The Republic.
- They are taught what their parents or guardians judge it necessary or useful for them to learn, and they are taught nothing else. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. Plato. The Republic.
- You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are having children. Plato. The Republic.
- Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State are to have their wives and families in common. Plato. The Republic.
- Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. Plato. The Republic.
- Such parts of education, however, were abandoned altogether to the care of the parents or guardians of each individual. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Will not the guardians be the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from the profession of some kind of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
- In the next place, drunkenness and softness and indolence are utterly unbecoming the character of our guardians. Plato. The Republic.
- And the reason of this, over and above the general constitution of the State, will be that the guardians will have a community of women and children? Plato. The Republic.
- They become the citizen-subjects of the state; its defenders in war; its internal guardians in peace. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He certainly thinks that the women ought to share in the education of the guardians, and to fight by their side. Plato. The Republic.
- The two together supply our guardians with their twofold nature. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Ricky