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Definition: Stand Guard |
Stand GuardVerb1. Watch over so as to protect; "We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves"; "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Stand GuardSynonyms: keep guard (v), stand sentinel (v), stand watch (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stand Guard |
| Specialty definitions using "stand guard": Sea. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Two GI's stand guard on bridge over Soapstone Creek--about 10 miles east of Selma--as Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers approach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But until world conditions permit, and until peace is assured, America's might-and America's bravest sons who wear our Nation's uniform-must continue to stand guard for all of us-as they gallantly do tonight in Vietnam and other places in the world. |
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Expression using "stand guard": stand guard on. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "stand guard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | posten (be on duty, post), op post staan (be on duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | posteni (be on duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surveiller (stake, stand guard on), garder (stand guard on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Posten stehen (be on duty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | őrt áll (to be on guard, to keep guard, to keep watch, to stand guard, to stand sentinel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 見張る (to look out, to stand guard, to watch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andstay uardgay стоять на часах. (various references) stražariti (patrol). (various references) garawul durmak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-g-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: graduands, guardants. | |
-2 letters: graduand, grandads, guardant, standard. | |
-3 letters: dastard, daturas, dustrag, gardant, grandad, tundras. | |
-4 letters: audads, datura, daunts, gradus, grands, grants, grunts, guards, ratans, ruanas, sangar, santur, satang, strand, strang, strung, tragus, tundra. | |
-5 letters: adust, agars, angas, angst, antas, antra, argus, audad, aunts, auras, dadas, dangs, darns, darts, daunt, dauts, drags, drats, drugs, duads, dungs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-g-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: gastroduodenal, granddaughters, undergraduates. | |
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