"guardianship" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: guardianships [plural]
Etymology: guardian + -ship Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|guardian|ship}} guardian + -ship Head templates: {{en-noun}} guardianship (plural guardianships)
  1. The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity. Synonyms: tutelarity Translations (position): попечителство (popečitelstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), voogdij [feminine] (Dutch), curatele [feminine] (Dutch), huoltajuus (Finnish), tutelle [feminine] (French), Vormundschaft [feminine] (German), Schutz [masculine] (German), gyámság (Hungarian), gondnokság (Hungarian), kurato (Ido), perwalian (Indonesian), daltachas [masculine] (Irish), bardacht [feminine] (Irish), coimirce [feminine] (Irish), feighlíocht [feminine] (Irish), tutela [feminine] (Italian), curatela [feminine] (Italian), tutoria [feminine] (Italian), tūtēla [feminine] (Latin), perwalian (Malay), currym (Manx), vergemål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), verjemål [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Väamindaschoft [feminine] (Plautdietsch), opieka [feminine] (Polish), tutela [feminine] (Portuguese), tutelă [feminine] (Romanian), опе́ка (opéka) [feminine] (Russian), tuitearachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), ста̀рате̄љство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), stàratēljstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), poručníctvo (Slovak), tutela [feminine] (Spanish), förmyndarskap [neuter] (Swedish), опі́ка (opíka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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