Rearguard

Definition: Rearguard

Rearguard

Noun

1. A detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body.

Date "rearguard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Crosswords: Rearguard

Specialty definitions using "rearguard": Roland. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Italian Entrepreneurs: Rearguard of Progress (reference) John Sevier as a commonwealth-builder; a sequel to The rearguard of the revolution (reference) Rearguard : the life and times of Piet Uys (reference) Rearguard Action- Selected Essays on Late Colonial Indian History (reference) Rearguard Actions (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gallant charge by two companies of the 6th Michigan on Tuesday morning on the rebel rearguard, near Falling Waters, where part of the rebel army crossed the Potomac.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Rearguard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.78% of the time. "Rearguard" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.78%	127	28,395
Noun (proper)	5.22%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

Expression using "rearguard": rearguard action. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "rearguard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		agterhoede (defence, rear). (various references)

Albanian		praparojë (rear guard, rearward). (various references)

Arabic		‏الساقة. (various references)

Bulgarian		ариергард (rear guard). (various references)

Czech		zadní voj (rear guard). (various references)

Dutch		achterhoede (defence, rear). (various references)

Esperanto		postgvardio (defence, rear), ariergardo (rear). (various references)

French		arrière-garde (rear, rear guard). (various references)

Frisian		efterhoede (defence, rear). (various references)

German		Nachhut (defence, rear). (various references)

Hebrew		מאסף (rear party). (various references)

Hungarian		utóvéd (rear echelon), hátvéd (back, full back, quarterback, rear). (various references)

Italian		retroguardia (defence, rear). (various references)

Manx		cooyl-ghaardey. (various references)

Pig Latin		earguardray

Portuguese		retaguarda (buttocks, rear, rearward, tail), destacamentoqueprotegearetaguardadeumexército (defence, rear). (various references)

Russian		арьергард (defence, rear, rear guard, rearward). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaštitnica (patroness, protectress, rear guard). (various references)

Spanish		retaguardia (defence, hinterland, rear, rearward). (various references)

Swedish		eftertrupp (rear guard, rear-guard), arriärgarde (rearward). (various references)

Turkish		dümdar, artçı (rear guard). (various references)

Ukranian		ар'�"ргард. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Rearguard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reagard, realgar, Reikguard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-r-r-u"
	-2 letters: guarder.
	-3 letters: argued, arguer, arrear, garred, grader, regard.
	-4 letters: adage, argue, auger, aurae, aurar, darer, drear, durra, grade, guard, radar, raged, rared, rarer, ruder, rugae, urare, urged, urger.
	-5 letters: agar, aged, ager, ague, area, aura, dare, dear, drag, dreg, drug, dura, dure, durr, egad, gaed, gaud, gaur, gear, grad, grue, guar, gude, raga, rage, rare, read, rear, rude, rued, ruer, ruga, urea, urge.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-r-r-u"
	+4 letters: undercarriage.
	+5 letters: undercarriages.
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