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Guard

/ɡɑːd/

A person or device that protects, watches over, or restricts access to something.

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The guard stopped us at the gate.He guards the museum at night.

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From Middle English garde, from Old French garde, verb from the Frankish *wardōn, which is from the Proto-Germanic *wardōną (to guard, to watch, to protect).

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