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red guards

red guards is the plural of red guard.

Meaning of red guard

Noun

red guard (plural red guards)

  1. A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.
    • In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.2011, Henry Kissinger, On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194
    Synonyms:
    hongweibing

Noun capitalized: Red Guards

Red Guards

  1. (plural) plural of Red Guard

Questions about red guards

What is red guards the plural of?
Red guards is the plural of red guard.
What part of speech is red guards?
Red guards is a noun.

Words near red guards in the dictionary

  1. red grapes
  2. red green
  3. red greens
  4. red grouse
  5. red guard
  6. red guards
  7. red gum
  8. red gums
  9. red gurnard
  10. red gurnards
  11. red hair

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