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Definition: Home Guard |
Home GuardNoun1. A volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Home Guard (1941) Snakeville's Home Guard (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Our gallant home guard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Lithuania | The "SKAT," or home guard, consists of over 50-60 units varying in size from company to platoon strength. (references) |
Latvia | The "zemessardze," or home guard, is an autonomous 16,500 man-strong volunteer paramilitary organization which also performs traditional national guard duties and assists the 2,500 border guards. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
home guard | 44 |
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| Language | Translations for "home guard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | Házi Õrizet, polgárőrség (militia), nemzetőrség (militia), angol szárazföldi haderő, angliai helyi önkéntes haderő. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omehay uardgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarda territorial. (various references) | |
Russian | ополченец (militiaman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rezervne snage dobrovoljaca. (various references) | |
Spanish | protección de casa, guardia de casa. (various references) | |
Swedish | hemvärnsman. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-m-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: hagrode, homaged, homager, humored, roughed. | |
-3 letters: aerugo, argued, dogear, dourah, drogue, gaumed, gherao, gourde, harmed, homage, maduro, mauger, maugre, morgue, ohmage, radome, remuda, roamed, rogued, rouged. | |
-4 letters: adore, amour, argue, armed, auger, degum, demur, derma, dogma, dough, douma, doura, dream, erugo, gamed, gamer, gerah, gored, gourd, grade, grume, guard, hared, harem, heard, herma. | |
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