1 a person who protects sth:
Farmers should be guardians of the countryside. * The police are guardians of law and order.
2 a person who is legally responsible for the care of another person, especially a child whose parents have died
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for guardian is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is guardian a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, guardian is tagged as noun.
Does guardian appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — guardian appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.