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garde

See also: Garde, gardé, gärde, and gårde

English edit

Noun edit

garde (plural gardes)

  1. Obsolete form of guard.

Verb edit

garde (third-person singular simple present gardes, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

  1. Obsolete form of guard.

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Czech edit

Noun edit

garde n (indeclinable)

  1. chaperon, chaperone

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French garde.

Noun edit

garde c (singular definite garden, plural indefinite garder)

  1. A guard.

Inflection edit

Declension of garde
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative garde garden garder garderne
genitive gardes gardens garders gardernes

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Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch gaerde.

Noun edit

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

  1. A whisk, a beater.
  2. A rod, penal implement.
    Synonym: roede

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowe from Middle French garde, from Old French garde, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].

Noun edit

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

  1. A guard (body of guards), especially an elite unit.
    Synonym: wacht
  2. A guardsman, member of such body.
    Synonyms: gardist, wachter
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French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡaʁd/
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Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old French guarde, from the verb guarder (or less likely directly from Frankish *warda), from Frankish *wardōn (“to protect”). Compare Italian guardia, Spanish guarda. Cognate with English ward.

Noun edit

garde m or f by sense (plural gardes)

  1. a watch, guard
  2. a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps.
  3. (military) sentry service performed by soldiers.
  4. (military) soldiers doing the sentry service
  5. any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.
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Etymology 2 edit

Deverbal from garder.

Noun edit

garde f (plural gardes)

  1. a handle (of a weapon)
  2. a protection (act of protecting)
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Descendants edit
  • → Turkish: gard

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

garde

  1. inflection of garder:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Galician edit

Verb edit

garde

  1. inflection of gardar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Old French guarde, from guarder. Doublet of ward.[1]

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Noun edit

garde (plural gardes)

  1. guardianship, safeguarding, covering, authority
  2. (rare) A company of guardians or wardens.
  3. (rare) A portion of a set of armour.
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References edit
  1. ^ “gard(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.
  2. ^ Bliss, A. J. (1969) “Vowel-Quantity in Middle English Borrowings from Anglo-Norman”, in Roger Lass, editor, Approaches to English historical linguistics; an anthology‎[1], New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186.

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

garde

  1. Alternative form of garth

Norman edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old French guarde, of Germanic origins.

Noun edit

garde f (plural gardes)

  1. (Jersey) A guard.

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

garde

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
  2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
  3. second-person singular imperative of garder

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From French garde, from French garder. Doublet of gardera and garderob.

Noun edit

garde n

  1. guard (military squad responsible for protecting something)
  2. unit of elite troops

Declension edit

Declension of garde 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative garde gardet garden gardena
Genitive gardes gardets gardens gardenas

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Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English garde, from Old French guarde.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

garde

  1. guardian
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:
      —t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.
      to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114
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