PROTECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protector mean? 

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

1. a person who cares for persons or property

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who cares for persons or property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

defender; guardian; protector; shielder

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

preserver (someone who keeps safe from harm or danger)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protector"):

admonisher; monitor; reminder (someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided)

bodyguard; escort (someone who escorts and protects a prominent person)

champion; fighter; hero; paladin (someone who fights for a cause)

chaperon; chaperone (one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people)

custodian; keeper; steward (one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals)

fire-eater; fire fighter; firefighter; fireman (a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires)

foster-parent; foster parent (a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child)

guard (a person who keeps watch over something or someone)

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)

peacekeeper (someone who keeps peace)

tribune ((ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests)

watchdog (a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste)

Derivation:

protect (shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage)

protectorship (the position of protector)

 Context examples 

I am sure I don't want a protector.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I took leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favour, and made me a generous present at my departure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A man-at-arms on either side of the doorway were the sole protectors of the royal dwelling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After all, she was only a woman, crying her relief, now that the danger was past, in the arms of her protector or of the one who had been endangered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Avobenzone is a topical, broad range UV protector and blocks UVA I, UVA II, and UVB wavelengths, thereby limiting the impact of UV rays on skin.

(Avobenzone, NCI Thesaurus)

Other specific baby products were also analysed, such as personal care products, certain fabrics, nappy-changing mats, and mattress protectors.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

He spoke little of his own exploits in Brazil and Peru, but it was a revelation to me to find the excitement which was caused by his presence among the riverine natives, who looked upon him as their champion and protector.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach, my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the "stony street" of L-.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Had Fanny been at all addicted to raptures, she must have had a strong attack of them when she first understood what was intended, when her uncle first made her the offer of visiting the parents, and brothers, and sisters, from whom she had been divided almost half her life; of returning for a couple of months to the scenes of her infancy, with William for the protector and companion of her journey, and the certainty of continuing to see William to the last hour of his remaining on land.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)