Masculine
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gardien

  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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