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Home Guards

Home Guards is the plural of Home Guard.

Meaning of Home Guard

Noun

Home Guard (plural Home Guards)

  1. A member of this defence force.
    • Some 100,000 railwaymen have been released to join the fighting forces, 90,000 are training as Home Guards in addition to their railway work, 170,000 members of the railway staffs have been fully trained in A.R.P. duties, and 100,000 railwaywomen are now employed.1943 March-April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95
    Synonyms:
    Home Guardsman

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Questions about Home Guards

What is Home Guards the plural of?
Home Guards is the plural of Home Guard.

Words near Home Guards in the dictionary

  1. Home Garden
  2. Home Gardens
  3. home ground
  4. home grounds
  5. Home Guard
  6. Home Guards
  7. Home Guardsman
  8. Home Guardsmen
  9. home harvest
  10. home harvests
  11. home haunt

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