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guardian

noun
/ˈɡɑɹ.di.ən/US/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/UK

Etymology

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

  1. derived from guardein
  2. inherited from gardein

Definitions

  1. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.

    • Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]
    • I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.
    • As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.

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

  3. A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A superior in a Franciscan monastery.

    2. A major or final enemy

      A major or final enemy; boss.

      • Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.
      • 'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'

    3. A servicemember of the United States Space Force.

    4. A British daily national newspaper.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at guardian. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01guardian02responsible03blamed04euphemism05phrase06syntax07words08lines09actors10actor

A definitional loop anchored at guardian. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at guardian

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA