HOME GUARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("home guard" is a kind of...):

guard (a military unit serving to protect some place or person)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home guard"):

yeomanry (a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army)

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