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HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

Definition: HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

1. Troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Household Troops Those troops whose special duty it is to attend the sovereign and guard the metropolis. They consist of the 1st and 2nd Life-guards, the Royal Horseguards, and the three regiments of Footguards called the Grenadier, Coldstream, and Scots Fusilier Guards. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Combatant	Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

Language		Translations for "HOUSEHOLD TROOPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		кралска гвардия. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouseholdhay oopstray

Portuguese		vigia (guard, keeper, look-out, night watch, overlooker, peephole, porthole, scuttle, taskmaster, tender, tenter, viewer, vigilante gang, ward, watch, watchman), prote��o (guard, guardianship), posi��o defensiva (guard), guarda (cater, check-taker, chokidar, guard, guardianship, headboard, keeper, keeping, minder, police officer, protector, safe conduct, safeguard, tendance, tender, tenter, trustee, ward, warden, watch, watcher, watchman), defesa (advantage, aegis, avail, behoof, blindage, boot, breastwork, bunce, cover-point, defence, defense, egis, fender, fireguard, interdiction, maintenance, parry, pleading, preservation, profit, protection, save, security, shield, spar, tower, vindication, ward). (various references)

Russian		гвардия (guards). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		garda. (various references)

Spanish		guardia real. (various references)

Swedish		livgarden. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-h-l-o-o-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-u"
	-5 letters: households, poorhouses, potholders, thresholds, toolhouses, upholsters.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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