A surname.

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. / To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something. / (Ireland) A garda; a police officer. / (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

(fencing) The starting position of a fencing bout; en garde. / Vigilant, alert. / (aviation) Transmitting on the aircraft emergency frequency.

(obsolete or poetic) cautious; wary; watchful

simple past tense and past participle of guard

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guard

Cautious; restrained. / Watched over; supervised.

plural of guard

(medicine) Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.