GUARDSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guardsman mean? 

• GUARDSMAN (noun)
  The noun GUARDSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a soldier who is a member of a unit called 'the guard' or 'guards'

  Familiarity information: GUARDSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUARDSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soldier who is a member of a unit called 'the guard' or 'guards'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("guardsman" is a kind of...):

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Holonyms ("guardsman" is a member of...):

home reserve; National Guard (United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either)

 Context examples 

“There’s no gamer man on the list, sir, than Noah James, the guardsman,” said Harrison.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the High Street of Lyndhurst the wayfarers had to pick their way, for the little town was crowded with the guardsmen, grooms, and yeomen prickers who were attached to the King's hunt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You mind last year when he came down to Malwood, with his inner marshal and his outer marshal, his justiciar, his seneschal, and his four and twenty guardsmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed people, who had watched the scuffle without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to attend to the injured man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)