NATIONAL GUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Guard mean? 

• NATIONAL GUARD (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL GUARD has 1 sense:

1. United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL GUARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL GUARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

home reserve; National Guard

Hypernyms ("National Guard" is a kind of...):

territorial; territorial reserve (a territorial military unit)

Meronyms (parts of "National Guard"):

National Guard Bureau; NGB (the agency that administers the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard; provides liaison between the Army and the Air Force and various National Guard units)

Meronyms (members of "National Guard"):

guardsman (a soldier who is a member of a unit called 'the guard' or 'guards')

territorial (nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit)

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 "National Guard"):

Air National Guard; ANG (a civilian reserve component of the United States Air Force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies)

Army National Guard; ARNG (a civilian reserve component of the United States Army comprised of guardsmen who serve during overseas peacekeeping missions and during local emergencies)