Definitions for guardianˈgɑr di ən

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

guard•i•anˈgɑr di ən(n.)

  1. a person who guards, protects, or preserves.

  2. a person legally entrusted with the care of another's person or property, as that of a minor or someone legally incapacitated.

    Category: Law

  3. (adj.)guarding; protecting:

    a guardian deity.

Origin of guardian:

1375–1425; late ME gardein < AF. See warden

guard′i•an•less(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. defender, guardian, protector, shielder(noun)

    a person who cares for persons or property

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. guardian(noun)ˈgɑr di ən

    sb who is legally in charge of a child or possessions of sb who has died

    The court appointed them as guardians.

Wiktionary

  1. guardian(Noun)

    Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.

  2. guardian(Noun)

    A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).

  3. guardian(Noun)

    A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.

  4. guardian(Noun)

    A superior in a Franciscan monastery.

  5. guardian(Noun)

    A major or final enemy; boss.

  6. Guardian(ProperNoun)

    A British daily national newspaper.

  7. Origin: guardein, *

Webster Dictionary

  1. Guardian(verb)

    one who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden

  2. Guardian(verb)

    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

  3. Guardian(adj)

    performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care


Translations for guardian

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

guardian(noun)

a person who has the legal right to take care of a child (usually an orphan)

He became the child's guardian when her parents died.

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