bodyguard
pronunciation
How to pronounce bodyguard in British English:
UK [ˈbɒdigɑ:d]
How to pronounce bodyguard in American English:
US [ˈbɑdigɑrd]
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- Noun:
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- a group of men who escort and protect some important person
Word Origin
- bodyguard (n.)
- 1735, "retinue, escort," collective singular, from body + guard (n.). Attested 1861 as "a soldier of the bodyguard."
Example
- 1. He remembered that sanders had once been a bodyguard .
- 2. Mr. hun manet heads the cambodian military 's counterterrorism arm and is deputy chief of his father 's personal bodyguard unit .
- 3. When a bodyguard working for southern afghanistan 's most notorious power broker gunned down his boss in july , a medley of voices loudly declared the end was nigh for kandahar .
- 4. The premier 's bodyguard hustled him to safety ; the robber was later arrested .
- 5. He is a weightlifter and calls himself " an intellectual who has the appearance of a bodyguard " .