Definition of "guardsman" []

• A person who acts as a guard. (noun)
• A member of the National Guard. (noun)
• Chiefly British A soldier in a regiment of household guards. (noun)

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• "REALITY CHECK: According to the Pentagon, someone who serves in the Air National Guard, as Bush did in the 1970s, is referred to as a guardsman, not a member of the active-duty Air Force."
• "He saw a tall and bony man with very bright blue eyes and what is sometimes called a guardsman's mustache -- the drooping, walruslike ornament which dates back a good many years now."
• "The guardsman was a young man, perhaps seventeen or eighteen, but no more."