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Definition of Lifeguard
1. Noun. An attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents.
Definition of Lifeguard
1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) an attendant, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water ¹
2. Noun. a lifesaver ¹
3. Noun. (rail transport) a sturdy metal bracket affixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lifeguard
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifeguard
Literary usage of Lifeguard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Yesterday morning Mr. Hatton, tip- staffe to the lord cheif justice Holt, brought
prisoners to the Gatehouse two lifeguard men, viz. ..."
2. Omitted Chapters of the History of England from the Death of Charles I to by Andrew Bisset (1867)
"And being informed that the Parliament had resolved to raise a lifeguard for the
Earl of Essex, to consist of a hundred gentlemen, under the command of Sir ..."
3. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"The hotel has a pool with lifeguard, room service, meeting rooms, valet service,
... It features a pool with lifeguard, meeting rooms, an exercise room, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"one of his Highnesses lifeguard, gives us, or will give us, ... It did not please
Heaven,—probably not Henry Toope of his Highness's lifeguard. ..."
5. Poet Lore (1913)
"The grave courtiers stand behind him, opposite to him the boyars and the princes,
and close the lifeguard band at his side. The Tzar feasts to the glory of ..."
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