bodyguard
Americannoun
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bodyguards
plural
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a person or group of persons employed to guard an individual, as a high official, from bodily harm.
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a retinue; escort.
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bodyguard
Example Sentences
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The actor stars as a bodyguard out for revenge and on a cargo ship in this lackluster action thriller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He thought Blake wanted him for bodyguard work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"He understands how that protection can fail and how catastrophic, therefore, those results can be," Simon Morgan, a former bodyguard for the royal family, told AFP on Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
The Trump administration's talks with Cuba and other recent outreach have even included Raúl Castro's 41-year-old grandson and bodyguard, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
I’m left with a bodyguard made up of Gale, Boggs, and two other soldiers.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
At least three people, including Robinson’s mom and Banks’ wife, have bodyguards in tow, some of them hulking and one with a tattooed head that bears the letters SOG, to signify “Son of God.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"This awoke not just Michoacan, but all of Mexico," she told AFP while surrounded by bodyguards to keep would-be assassins at bay.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Putting his full trust in his godson, Zambada was accompanied by only four bodyguards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Zambada also said two of his bodyguards, one of them a Sinaloa state police commander, have not been “seen or heard from since.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
Two weeks later, Bobby, Eugene Torre, and the two bodyguards drove in a rented car to the border of Hungary, were asked for their passports, and without further delay were allowed to pass.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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