Guardsman
['gɑːdzmən] or ['ɡɑrdzmən]
Definition
(noun.) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards'.
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Definition
(n.) One who guards; a guard.
(n.) A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Watchman, sentinel, sentry, guard.
Checker: Prudence
Examples
- It will hardly be enough to pay the inn bill, grumbled the Guardsman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her conduct must have relieved Crawley if there was any jealousy in the bosom of that life-guardsman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Old William Tell, Old Shaw, the Life Guardsman! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The guardsman stepped before me, saying, No one comes from Than Kosis without carrying an order or the password. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- With a spring as swift and as noiseless as a tiger's I lit beside the guardsman who had moved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His only son, General Cheney, was an old guardsman, and died some few years ago. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Don't call me names, said the big Guardsman, sulkily. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Captain Crawley asked, remembering after an effort, as became a guardsman, the number of the regiment, the --th. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In fact the impressions were strongly marked on the brain of each of the four guardsmen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- No doubt Napoleon was well content with the philosophy of those guardsmen who drank his health before he executed them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Directly beneath us upon the scarlet sward a handful of guardsmen were stooping above a still and prostrate form. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Guardsmen and nobles pressed close about the silent witness upon the marble floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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