garde

See also: Garde, gardé, gärde, and gårde

English

Noun

garde (plural gardes)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of guard.

See also

• arrière-garde
• avant-garde
• garde-collet
• garde de rein
• garde-faude
• garde rein
• garderobe
• passe-garde
• passe garde

 

Anagrams

• grade, radge, Agder, Dager, Edgar, Adger, Degar, EDGAR, raged, Gared, greda, Gerda

Czech

Noun

garde n (indeclinable)

1. chaperon, chaperone

Related terms

• gardedáma f

 

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Noun

garde c (singular definite garden, plural indefinite garder)

1. A guard.

Inflection

Declension of garde

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

Derived terms

• den gamle garde
• den lette garde
• garden
• garder
• gardere
• garderobe
• gardist

 

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣɑr.də/
• Hyphenation: gar‧de
• Rhymes: -ɑrdə

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gaerde.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

1. a whisk, a beater
2. a rod, penal implement

   Synonym: roede

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• gardebataljon
• gardecompagnie
• gardejager
• gardekorps
• gardeluitenant
• gardesoldaat
• garderegiment
• lijfgarde
• nationale garde
• oude garde

Related terms

• en garde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁd/

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Etymology 1

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

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.

Derived terms

• chien de garde
• de garde
• garde à vue
• garde alternée
• garde du corps
• garde forestier
• mettre en garde
• mise en garde
• page de garde
• prendre garde
• sur ses gardes

Etymology 2

Deverbal from garder.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. a handle (of a weapon)
2. a protection (act of protecting)

Derived terms

• baisser la garde
• bière de garde
• corps de garde
• garde des reins
• garde rapprochée
• monter la garde
• vieille garde

 

Descendants

• → Turkish: gard

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

garde

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

Derived terms

• garde-fou
• garde-manger

Further reading

• “garde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Edgar
• égard

Galician

Verb

garde

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French guarde, from guarder. Doublet of ward.

Alternative forms

• gard, guarde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡard(ə)/, /ˈɡaːrd(ə)/

Noun

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.

Related terms

• gardein
• savegard

Descendants

• English: guard
• Scots: gaird
• Yola: garde

Etymology 2

Noun

garde

1. Alternative form of garth

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French guarde, of Germanic origens.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. (Jersey) A guard.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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

Etymology

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

Noun

garde n

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

Declension

Declension of garde

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	garde	gardes
	definite	gardet	gardets
plural	indefinite	garden	gardens
	definite	gardena	gardenas

Derived terms

• arriärgarde
• borgargarde
• civilgarde
• det lätta gardet
• det tunga gardet
• gardeskasern
• gardesofficer
• gardist
• hästgarde
• livgarde
• medborgargarde
• muskötgarde
• nationalgarde
• pretoriangarde

 

References

• garde in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• garde in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• garde in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English garde, from Old French guarde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːd/

Noun

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

• 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