garde

garde (plural gardes)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

garde (third-person singular simple present gardes, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

• grade, radge, Agder, Dager, Edgar, Adger, Degar, EDGAR, raged, Gared, greda, Gerda

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡardɛ]

garde n (indeclinable)

1. chaperon, chaperone

Borrowed from French garde.

garde c (singular definite garden, plural indefinite garder)

1. A guard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑr.də/

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• Hyphenation: gar‧de
• Rhymes: -ɑrdə

From Middle Dutch gaerde.

garde f (plural gardes or garden, no diminutive)

1. a whisk, a beater
2. a rod, penal implement

   Synonym: roede

Borrowe from Middle French garde, from Old French garde, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].

garde f (plural gardes or garden, no diminutive)

1. a guard (body of guards), especially an elite unit

   Synonym: wacht

2. a guardsman, member of such body

   Synonyms: gardist, gardesoldaat, wachter

• en garde

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁd/

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Inherited from Old French guarde, from the verb guarder (or less likely directly from Frankish *warda), from Frankish *wardōn (“to protect”). Compare Italian guardia, Spanish guarda. Cognate with English ward.

garde m or f by sense (plural gardes)

1. a watch, guard
2. a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps.
3. (military) sentry service performed by soldiers.
4. (military) soldiers doing the sentry service
5. any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.

• Haitian Creole: gad

Deverbal from garder.

garde f (plural gardes)

1. a handle (of a weapon)
2. a protection (act of protecting)

• → Turkish: gard

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

garde

1. inflection of garder:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• garde-fou
• garde-manger

• “garde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• Edgar
• égard

garde

1. inflection of gardar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Old French guarde, from guarder. Doublet of ward.^[1]

• gard, guarde

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡard(ə)/, /ˈɡaːrd(ə)/^[2]

garde (plural gardes)

1. guardianship, safeguarding, covering, authority
2. (rare) A company of guardians or wardens.
3. (rare) A portion of a set of armour.

• gardein
• savegard

• English: guard
• Scots: gaird
• Yola: garde

garde

1. alternative form of garth

From Old French guarde, of Germanic origins.

garde f (plural gardes)

1. (Jersey) A guard.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

garde

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
3. second-person singular imperative of garder

From French garde, from French garder. Doublet of gardera and garderob.

garde n

1. guard (military squad responsible for protecting something)
2. unit of elite troops

• “garde”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “garde”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “garde”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Middle English garde, from Old French guarde.

• IPA^(key): /ɡard/

garde

1. guardian
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:

     —t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.

     to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114