"Life Guardsman" meaning in English

See Life Guardsman in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Life Guardsmen [plural]
Etymology: From Life Guards + -man. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Life Guards|man}} Life Guards + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|Life Guardsmen|head=Life Guardsman}} Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)
  1. (now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards. Tags: historical Synonyms: lifeguardsman, life-guardsman
    Sense id: en-Life_Guardsman-en-noun-Gd-ym0Ub Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -man

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Life Guardsman meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Life Guards",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "Life Guards + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Life Guards + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Life Guardsmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Life Guardsmen",
        "head": "Life Guardsman"
      },
      "expansion": "Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -man",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299",
          "text": "‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […].’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards."
      ],
      "id": "en-Life_Guardsman-en-noun-Gd-ym0Ub",
      "links": [
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "Life Guards",
          "Life Guards"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lifeguardsman"
        },
        {
          "word": "life-guardsman"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Life Guardsman"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Life Guards",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "Life Guards + -man",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Life Guards + -man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Life Guardsmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Life Guardsmen",
        "head": "Life Guardsman"
      },
      "expansion": "Life Guardsman (plural Life Guardsmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -man",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 299",
          "text": "‘So, Sir, you may quarter two life-guardsmen upon him […].’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soldier",
          "soldier"
        ],
        [
          "Life Guards",
          "Life Guards"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now chiefly historical) A soldier who is a member of the Life Guards."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lifeguardsman"
    },
    {
      "word": "life-guardsman"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Life Guardsman"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.