lifeguard
pronunciation
How to pronounce lifeguard in British English:
UK [ˈlaɪfgɑ:d]
How to pronounce lifeguard in American English:
US [ˈlaɪfgɑrd]
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- Noun:
- an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
Word Origin
- lifeguard (n.)
- also life-guard, 1640s, "bodyguard of soldiers," from life (n.) + guard (n.), translating German leibgarde. Sense of "person paid to watch over bathers" is by 1896.
Example
- 1. Every lifeguard knows you can 't save someone as long as they are trying to save themselves .
- 2. Deng , now forty-seven , is a united states citizen who works as a lifeguard on coney island .
- 3. Each dog works in tandem with a human lifeguard , who also acts as the animal 's trainer .
- 4. I know you can 't tell by the way I look today , but for three years I was a lifeguard .
- 5. I headed down to perth 's city beach to shoot a couple low light images and the lifeguard tower there .