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vigilante
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /v?d???lænti/, /v?d???l??nte?/
Noun
vigilante (plural vigilantes)
- A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction. [from 19th c.]
Derived terms
- vigilantism
- digilante
Translations
Anagrams
- genitival
French
Adjective
vigilante
- feminine singular of vigilant
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.
Verb
vigilante
- present participle of vigilare
Adjective
vigilante (plural vigilanti)
- vigilant, watchful, alert
- Synonyms: vigile, attento
Related terms
- vigilanza
- vigilare
Noun
vigilante m or f (plural vigilanti)
- security guard
- vigilante
Latin
Participle
vigilante
- ablative masculine singular of vigil?ns
- ablative feminine singular of vigil?ns
- ablative neuter singular of vigil?ns
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.
Adjective
vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes, comparable)
- vigilant; watchful; observant (alert and paying close attention)
Derived terms
- vigilantemente
Related terms
- vigilância
- vigilar
Noun
vigilante m, f (plural vigilantes)
- a person whose job is to watch over something
Further reading
- “vigilante” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.
Adjective
vigilante (plural vigilantes)
- watchful, alert, wakeful
Noun
vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes)
- guard, watchman
- Synonym: guarda
Derived terms
Related terms
- vigilancia
- vigilar
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish vigilante
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bid?i?lante/
Noun
vigilante
- vigilante
- a person suspected to be involved in extrajudicial killings in the drug war in the Philippines from 2016.
Related terms
- salvage
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guard
English
Alternative forms
- gard, garde, guarde (obsolete)
Etymology
For verb: From early Middle French or late Old French (circa 14th cent) guarder (“to keep, ward, guard, save, preserve, etc.”), from Frankish *ward?n, from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, protect”). Cognate with Old English weardian (whence English to ward). Compare French garder. See also English regard.
For noun: From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
guard (plural guards)
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- (Ireland) A garda; a police officer.
- 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer (?ISBN), page 139
- The Garda Regulations 1924 required a candidate for appointment as a guard to be able to produce satisfactory references as to his character
- 2016, Anastasia Dukova, A History of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and its Colonial Legacy, Springer (?ISBN), page 139
- (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A watchchain.
- (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (uncountable) A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
- (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
- (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 141, [4]
- When an engineer wished to stop a swiftly moving train he had first to whistle to the guard requesting him to apply the hand-brake of the van, and then apply the hand-brake of the engine. Guards did not always hear.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 141, [4]
- (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
Synonyms
- (the part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand): quillon
- (part of machine blocking dangerous parts): protection
- (panel of a car enclosing a wheel): fender
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
guard (third-person singular simple present guards, present participle guarding, simple past and past participle guarded)
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- Guard the prisoner.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
- Careful people guard against mistakes.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- guard one's tongue
Translations
Further reading
- guard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- guard in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- guard at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dagur, Darug, Dugar, Durga, draug, durag
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