Masculine
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gardien

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (masculine) guard (someone who keeps guard of something)
  2. (masculine) guardian, warden (protector)
  3. (masculine) guardian (someone who looks after something else)
  4. (masculine) guardian
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine) ellipsis of gardien de but (goalkeeper; goaltender; goalie)
  6. (North-America, masculine) babysitter

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡaʁ.djɛ̃/
Etymology

In summary

From Old French guardian, guardein (“protector, guard”), from an earlier *gardenc, the first root deriving from guarder and the second from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz, cf the similarly-formed Italian guardingo . The suffix was later changed; compare the Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin guardianus, which may have influenced it. Doublet of gardian.

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