Usually means: Civilian volunteers for national defense.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. home guard: Merriam-Webster
  2. Home Guard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. home guard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Home Guard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. home guard: Vocabulary.com
  6. home-guard: Wordnik
  7. home guard: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. home guard: Dictionary.com
  9. Home Guard (Denmark), Home Guard (India), Home Guard (New Zealand), Home Guard (Norway), Home Guard (Sri Lanka), Home Guard (Sweden), Home Guard (Swedish Armed Forces), Home Guard (Union), Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Guard, Home guard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. home guard: Rhymezone
  11. home guard: FreeDictionary.org
  12. home guard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. home guard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. home guard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  15. Home Guard: Wiktionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. home guard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See home_guards as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Home Guard)

noun:  (military, historical) An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular, defence against any invasion by enemy forces.
noun:  A member of the Home Guard.

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