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Definition of Body guard
1. Verb. Accompany and protect from physical harm.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Guard
Literary usage of Body guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: A Study of Historical Biography by Eugene Schuyler (1884)
"The body-guard of Demetrius was composed of three hundred foreigners, ...
When Demetrius was so desperately defended by his foreign body-guard, ..."
2. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"There had been Tories, or at least suspects, in the first body-guard appointed,
and plots were revealed by which the person of the commander- in-chief was ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The governor-general in 18:21 made him surgeon to his body-guard, and he served
in the first Burmese war. ..."
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