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HOME GUARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does home guard mean?
• HOME GUARD (noun)
The noun HOME GUARD has 1 sense:
1. a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
Familiarity information: HOME GUARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("home guard" is a kind of...):
guard (a military unit serving to protect some place or person)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home guard"):
yeomanry (a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army)
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