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Definition of Old guard
1. Noun. A faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas.
Definition of Old guard
1. Noun. A conservative, reactionary faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas ¹
2. Noun. Collectively, the members of a team who have been a long time in a place. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Guard
Literary usage of Old guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"T THE VETERANS From 'The old guard ' >HE thing is worth considering; Three ghosts
of old veterans In the uniform of the old guard, With two shadows of ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"... succeeded without the aid of such flank protection^ eleven battalions of his
Young and old guard to maintain ..."
3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1832)
"Symptoms of s.sse approaching crisis—A pert of the old guard disbanded, who return
to France—Napoleon escapes ..."
4. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... aftc- tion Old students entertain the "old guard" of friends to dinner or
reception, ... who had brought together all the "old guard" and their wives. ..."
5. 1815, Waterloo by Henry Houssaye (1905)
"In Plancenoit the Young Guard of Du- hesme and the two battalions of the Old
Guard of Morand and Pelet remained inexpugnable ..."
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