noun
definition
A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
verb
definition
To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
Examples of bodyguard in a Sentence
This is Sofi and her bodyguard, Pierre.
I hope you stay my bodyguard.
He surrounded himself with a bodyguard of Caesar's veterans, and forced the senate to transfer to him the province of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then administered by Decimus Junius Brutus, one of the conspirators.
During Alexander's Persian campaigns he was one of his immediate bodyguard and distinguished himself in India.
Her tall, blond bodyguard, Pierre, stepped closer to her, hand moving to his weapons.
The people unhesitatingly awarded their "champion" a bodyguard of fifty men (afterwards four hundred) armed with clubs.
He became chief of the bodyguard, as Ewald rightly interprets I Sam.
The ruin of the dynasty came, however, from those Turkish slaves who were constituted as a royal bodyguard by Moqtasim (833-842).
Mahommed Ali consented, but withdrew from Teheran; and on his departure the royal bodyguard of so-called Cossacks Persian soldiers officered by Russians in the shahs serviceat once came into conflict with the Nationalists.
In 1762 he was appointed captain of Maria Theresa's Hungarian bodyguard, in 1764 Feldzeugmeister, and in 1768 field marshal.
The majority of inscriptions and images bearing her name have been found in Gaul, Germany and the Danube countries; of the few that occur in Rome itself most were exhumed on the site of the barracks of the equiles singulares, a foreign imperial bodyguard mainly recruited from the Batavians.
Herodotus, in the spirit of 5th-century Greeks, which conventionally regarded the tyrants as selfish despots, says he ruled harshly, but he is generally represented as mild, beneficent and so popular as to be able to dispense with a bodyguard, the usual attribute of a tyrannis.
To the south was a camp for the imperial bodyguard, with baths, an amphitheatre, a large water reservoir, &c. The first legion known to have been quartered there is the II.
These attendants afterwards became the bodyguard of Zeus and the priests of Rhea, and performed ceremonies in her honour.
Han, until I let you go back to war, you'll be her bodyguard.
He was pretending to read a book, though she suspected he'd been emplaced as her bodyguard.
As many as 5000 Christians lived peaceably in Tlemcen, and the Sultan included in his army a Christian bodyguard.
In particular cohortes praetoriae now designated the imperial bodyguard.
At the opening of the states-general he began to publish the Courrier de Versailles a Paris et de Paris a Versailles, in which appeared on the 4th of October 1789 the account of the banquet of the royal bodyguard.
Harun's son Motasim displeased the people by creating a bodyguard of Turks, and therefore transferred his seat to Samarra.
As captain of the imperial bodyguard, he accompanied Julian in his Persian expedition; and on the day after that emperor's death, when the aged Sallust, prefect of the East, declined the purple, the choice of the army fell upon Jovian.
Tarquinius appears as a Greek "tyrant" of the ordinary kind, who surrounds himself with a bodyguard and erects magnificent buildings to keep the people employed; on the other hand, an older tradition represents him as more like Romulus.
The antrustion was always of Frankish descent, and only in certain exceptional cases were Gallo-Romans admitted into the king's bodyguard.
For each of their expeditions, the kings raised an army of citizens in which the Gallo-Romans mingled more and more with the Franks; they only kept one small permanent body which acted as their bodyguard (trustis dominica), some members of which were from time to time told off for other tasks, such as that of forming garrisons in the frontier towns..
The three officials of importance whose nomination is mentioned by the historians in addition to that of the governor were the commander of the bodyguard, the minister of finance and the judge.
In 1602 a raid by the Uskoks upon Istria resulted in an agreement between Venice and Austria, and the despatch to Zengg of the energetic commissioner Rabatta with a strong bodyguard.
Motasim wanted officers for his bodyguard.
He established a senate of 300 members, drawn from Roman emigrants, with probably a sprinkling of the best Spaniards, and surrounded himself with a Spanish bodyguard.
He was moreover a coward, and went in such constant terror of assassination that he always surrounded himself with a regular bodyguard.
In spite of these varied achievements Periander never entirely conciliated his subjects, for he could not trust himself without a bodyguard.
He paid off and sent home the great army with whose aid he had won the English crown, retaining only a small bodyguard of house-cans and trusting to the loyalty of his new subjects.
In May 1815 he was transferred to Italy, and at the battle of Tolentino scattered Murat's bodyguard by a dashing cavalry charge.
He appeared with a bodyguard, and the Sanhedrin was overawed.
The king had his bodyguard of four men always around him; these were commonly men whom he had saved from execution or redeemed from slavery.
Dusty's Guardians were disciplined, unlike her own personal bodyguard, Pierre.
Damian looked at him, touching his thoughts long enough to realize Rainy had volunteered to take on the bodyguard assignment to the beautiful woman in his thoughts.
Very well, then, how about we make a deal for you to come back with me as my personal bodyguard, and I.ll make sure she.s safe and happy the rest of her life?
There had been no actual admission that Dad had sent a bodyguard, only her interpretation of the conversation.
Fiver to you DVDs Synopsis A wealthy businessman hires a bodyguard to protect his girlfriend who has become witness to a murder.
Gaza 1 6 Hamas suspected in elevator blast that kills a bodyguard.
When someone employs a bodyguard they simply pay them to do the job.
Because the truth needs no such bodyguard of lies.
Natalie is immensely grateful to Frances for sticking up for her and offers her money to become a regular bodyguard.
Each celebrity is surrounded by a marshmallow bodyguard wearing a T-shirt saying " nobody here gets hurt " .
He said, " In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
In the last few weeks alone, the price of an armed bodyguard has fallen by over 60 per cent!
A young country boy slave dazzled by the splendor of the royal bodyguard 's mansion.
Recordings released by a former presidential bodyguard implicate Kuchma in the case.
From the reign of Charles VII onwards Scots archers formed the French king's personal bodyguard.
When she found out her manager was having an affair with her own bodyguard she was devastated.