Definition of Body guard

1. Verb. Accompany and protect from physical harm.

Generic synonyms: Protect
Entails: Escort
Derivative terms: Bodyguard, Bodyguard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Guard

body clock
body coat
body con
body constitution
body cord
body corporate
body count
body covering
body double
body doubles
body dysmorphic disorder
body fluid
body fluid compartments
body fluids
body forth
body guard (current term)
body hair
body hairs
body horror
body image
body language
body languages
body length
body lice
body lotion
body louse
body mechanics
body modification

Literary usage of Body guard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography by Eugene Schuyler (1884)
"The body-guard of Demetrius was composed of three hundred foreigners, ... When Demetrius was so desperately defended by his foreign body-guard, ..."

2. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"There had been Tories, or at least suspects, in the first body-guard appointed, and plots were revealed by which the person of the commander- in-chief was ..."

3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The governor-general in 18:21 made him surgeon to his body-guard, and he served in the first Burmese war. ..."

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