"garda" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gardai",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gardaí",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gardai",
        "2": "gardaí"
      },
      "expansion": "garda (plural gardai or gardaí)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Garda"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards, page 38",
          "text": "A garda was ambling towards us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6",
          "text": "A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Garda"
      ],
      "id": "en-garda-en-noun-NDZoGWTB",
      "links": [
        [
          "Garda",
          "Garda#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Garda"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "garda"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gardai",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gardaí",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gardai",
        "2": "gardaí"
      },
      "expansion": "garda (plural gardai or gardaí)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Garda"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ken Bruen, The Guards, page 38",
          "text": "A garda was ambling towards us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 15, Ken Foy, “Garda trainee sent home from Templemore over tattoo says he has been treated ‘very unfairly‘”, in Irish Independent, page 6",
          "text": "A trainee garda who was sent home from Templemore Garda College after he was told the tattoo on his hand id not comply with the force's dress and uniform code said he has been “treated very unfairly”.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Garda"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Garda",
          "Garda#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Garda"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Garda"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "garda"
}