RED GUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Guard mean? 

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

1. a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED GUARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)

Domain region:

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)