Synonyms for guardian
ˈgɑr di ənguardian

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.2 / 12 votes

1. guardian

   Synonyms:
   keeper, protector, conservator, custodian, preserver, warder

   Antonyms:
   traitor, betrayer, pupil, ward

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.3 / 7 votes

1. defender, guardian, protector, shieldernoun

   a person who cares for persons or property

   Synonyms:
   shielder, defender, withstander, protector

Matched Categories

1. • Preserver

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. authority

   someone who takes care of you or is in charged of you

   my guardian is the person who takes care of me

   Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. guardiannoun

   Synonyms:
   warden, keeper, protector, defender, preserver, guardian angel, tutelary saint

2. guardianadjective

   Synonyms:
   protecting, tutelary

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1. guardianadjective

   Synonyms:
   tutelary, protecting, tutelar

2. guardiannoun

   Synonyms:
   defender, guard, tutelary saint, keeper, warden, protector, defense, guardian angel

   Antonyms:
   ward, protégé

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1. List of paraphrases for "guardian":

   tutor, custodian, guardians, keeper, guarantor, guard, warden, guardianship, babysitter, watchdog, janitor, mentor, caretaker, protector, gatekeeper, sitter, trusteeship, watchman, warder, curator, caregiver

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. guardian

   Synonyms:
   Guardian ad litem, law guardian, legal guardian

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1. Barry Balaski:

   As part of our district's Health and Safety Plan and in accordance with the CDC's guidance for schools, the district provides hand sanitizing stations that are available in each of our schools, in addition, students are permitted to have hand sanitizer in their desk or backpack. However, students are not required to keep it in their desk or backpack, particularly if a parent/guardian does not want them to have it.

2. Plutarch:

   He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

3. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter:

   The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

4. Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa:

   The Act should make it an offence for a guardian or other person to enter into a lobola agreement or other customary arrangement or ceremony in respect of a person under the age of 18.

5. Catholic Prayer:

   Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide.