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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: bodyguard, escort]
2: a group of men who escort and protect some important person
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1704 a usually armed attendant or group of attendants whose duty is to protect a person
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. a person or group of persons escorting and protecting another person (esp. a dignitary).
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Bodyguard Bod"y*guard`, n. 1. A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard. 2. Retinue; attendance; following. --Bp. Porteus.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(bodyguards) A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone. Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack... The King had brought his own bodyguard of twenty armed men. N-COUNT
Moby Thesaurus
cavalier, chaperon, companion, conductor, convoy, duenna, escort, esquire, fellow traveler, gentleman-at-arms, guard, guards, guardsman, praetorian guard, safe-conduct, safeguard, shepherd, squire, swain, usher, yeoman
