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guardpost

guardpost is the alternative spelling of guard post.

Meaning of guard post

Noun

guard post (plural guard posts)

  1. A location where a guard is posted (station), often having a guardhouse.
    • In 1938 my husband and I were sent by the old regimental district branch to a guard post called Boli on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union.1986, Chiharu Kōno, “Women in Flight”, in Richard L. Gage, transl., Women Against War: Personal Accounts of Forty Japanese Women, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26

Forms of guardpost

pluralguardposts

Origin of guardpost

From guard + post.

Questions about guardpost

What is guardpost the alternative spelling of?
Guardpost is the alternative spelling of guard post.

Words near guardpost in the dictionary

  1. guardless
  2. guardlessness
  3. guardlike
  4. guardline
  5. guardlines
  6. guardpost
  7. guardposts
  8. guardrail
  9. guardrailed
  10. guardrails
  11. guardroom

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