What does PROTECTOR mean?

Definitions for PROTECTOR
prəˈtɛk tərpro·tec·tor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. defender, guardian, protector, shieldernoun

    a person who cares for persons or property

Wiktionary

  1. protectornoun

    Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on his own initiative.

  2. protectornoun

    A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.

  3. protectornoun

    One who prevents interference.

  4. protectornoun

    A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.

    I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service uE000164860uE001 not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change. uE000164861uE001Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Protectornoun

    Etymology: protecteur, Fr. from protect.

    Hither th’ oppressed shall henceforth resort,
    Justice to crave, and succour at your court;
    And then your highness, not for our’s alone,
    But for the world’s protector shall be known. Edmund Waller.

    The king of Spain, who is protector of the commonwealth, received information from the great duke. Addison.

    Is it concluded, he shall be protector?
    —— It is determin’d, not concluded yet. William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Protectornoun

    one who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron

  2. Protectornoun

    one having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent

  3. Protectornoun

    a cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc

  4. Etymology: [L.: cf. F. protecteur.]

Wikidata

  1. Protector

    Protector, sometimes spelled protecter, is used as a title or part of various historical titles of heads of state and others in authority. The word literally means one who protects.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PROTECTOR in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PROTECTOR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of PROTECTOR in a Sentence

  1. Ronald Tate:

    My heart has been ripped out of my chest, and torn into a million pieces, gotta get down to MS where my daughter is. She's absolutely devastated. He was clearly her protector, and friend.

  2. Nasser Al Qasabi:

    God is my protector. I'm an artist, and the artist's essential role is to reveal society's challenges even if he pays a price, warning the people about ISIS is the true jihad, because we're fighting them with art not war.

  3. Matt Angle:

    The Department of Justice has completed the conversion from a vote protector to a vote suppressor.

  4. Susan Rice:

    I think it unlikely that China wants to be seen by the international community as the protector of North Korea given its recent outrageous behavior, given that, I expect that they will indeed come on board with significant new sanctions and we're working toward that end.

  5. Lawrence Goldstone:

    If you look at the history of this country from Supreme Court until now, for almost our entire history it has been conservative, it has been a protector of a certain status quo. It has certainly been protective of white rule.

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