esguard

English

Etymology

Compare Old French esgart (“look; regard”), French égard. See guard.

Noun

esguard (plural esguards)

1. (obsolete) Guard.
   • 1616-19, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of Malta

     One of th' Esguard.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “esguard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dargues, desugar, guardes, sugared

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from esguardar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əzˈɡwart]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ezˈɣwaɾt]

Noun

esguard m (plural esguards)

1. look, gaze

   Synonym: mirada

2. consideration, respect

   Synonym: consideració

Derived terms

• en esguard de
• esguard fix
• per esguard de
• tenint esguard que

 

Further reading

• “esguard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.