name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
minder
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -aɪndə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: M AY1 N D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A personal bodyguard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 4
A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
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noun
Meaning 5
One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: babyminder, baby minder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: keeper
noun
Meaning 7
someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us
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Broader terms: escort
History
Etymology
From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: гледач (gledač) — One who minds someone or something
- Czech: osoba na hlídání — One who minds someone or something
- Czech: dozor — One who minds someone or something
- Czech: dohled — One who minds someone or something
- Czech: hlídač — One who minds someone or something
- German: Betreuer — One who minds someone or something
- German: Tagesmutter — One who minds someone or something
- German: Babysitter — One who minds someone or something
- Irish: feighlí páistí — One who minds someone or something
- Spanish: niñera — One who minds someone or something
- Spanish: niñero — One who minds someone or something
- Bulgarian: телохранител (telohranitel) — bodyguard
- Czech: tělesný strážce — bodyguard
- Finnish: turvamies — bodyguard
- Finnish: henkivartija — bodyguard
- French: garde du corps — bodyguard
- German: Leibwächter — bodyguard
- Spanish: guardaespaldas — bodyguard